necessitarianismn.

1825 N. Amer. Rev. July 51 An evident vein of Necessitarianism runs through all his speculations.

1854 J. A. Froude Spinoza in Short Stud. (1867) 2 43 The fallacy of all common arguments against necessitarianism lies in the assumption that it leaves no room for self-direction.

1885 R. H. Hutton in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 376 Whose crude rationalistic necessitarianism..reconciled him to a confident expectation of annihilation.

1942 D. D. Runes Dict. Philos. (1960) 207/2 Necessitarianism, as a theory of cosmic necessity, becomes in its special application to the human will, determination.

1978 L. White in Dædalus Spring 49 It is hard for a twentieth century mind..to grasp the whimsicality and the blind, irrational necessitarianism that were compounded, but not blended, in the pagan view of the world.

1993 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 18 Nov. 48/3 Although Pascal was a devout theist and invoked probability theory as a support for the Christian ‘wager’, others saw the theory as a blood brother of necessitarianism.