necessitarian
/nəˌsɛsɪˈtɛːrɪən
/noun Philosophy
Another term for determinist (see determinism).Hume defends the necessitarian point of view by arguing that all human actions are caused by antecedent motives....
- A recent elucidation of a necessitarian approach to causality is found in Harre and Madden.
- Early modern historians are at last freeing themselves from the thrall of a typology which has conditioned them to accept necessitarian theories of change based on nineteenth- and twentieth-century events.
Derivatives
necessitarianism
/ noun ...- The only argument I know of for truthmaker necessitarianism is that given by David Armstrong.
- This, the usual and most logical form of necessitarianism, is called the mechanical philosophy.
- Then in his responses to necessitarianism Leibniz can say that the necessitarianism he's avoiding is a logical necessitarianism.