单词 | necessarian |
释义 | necessariann.adj. A. n. A believer in necessity (necessity n. 1a); a person who holds that human conduct is dictated by force of circumstance (as opposed to free will); a necessitarian. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > [noun] > doctrine of necessity > one who maintains necessarian1777 necessitarian1783 necessist1873 determinist1874 1777 J. Priestley Doctr. Philos. Necessity 111 I cannot, as a necessarian, hate any man. 1790 C. M. Graham Lett. Educ. 464 The free-willers agree with the necessarians in the opinion, that the mind perceives the difference of things. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk (1869) 2nd Ser. iv. 87 The precise knowledge of antecedents and consequents makes men practical as well as philosophical Necessarians. 1872 R. F. Littledale in Contemp. Rev. 20 445 Here is the dilemma for Necessarians who plead God's changelessness. 1898 N. Amer. Rev. Oct. 421 A moral philosopher who is a thorough-going evolutionist must apparently be a thorough-going necessarian. 1908 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 18 220 The declaration of the necessarian that conduct is wholly determined by circumstances; that is to say, by external conditions. 1967 Jrnl. Philos. 64 599 Some personalists and necessarians are altogether immune to the criticism of worldliness because, for them, that A is more probable than B for Mr. Smith is an intuitive and unanalyzable notion. 1993 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 156 25 Other researchers make allusions that suggest that they thought more about this matter than they wrote (e.g. Savage (1967) on necessarians). B. adj. Of or relating to necessarians or their beliefs. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > [adjective] > relating to doctrine of necessity necessitarian1739 necessarian1778 determinist1851 necessist1873 deterministic1874 1778 T. Lindsey Let. 2 Apr. (2007) I. 256 But Dr Priestley is compelled to the conclusion by his Necessarian doctrine. 1795 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 18 127 Being fostered by the necessarian philosophy, it is likely to become a prevailing passion. 1831 R. Blakey Ess. Good & Evil Pref. 10 One of those epitomes of the necessarian hypothesis. 1878 J. Morley Diderot II. 199 The establishment in men's minds of a Necessarian theory. 1891 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) July 52 The necessarian doctrines of physical depravity and physical regeneration taught by the Augustinian and Calvinistic theology. 1907 Mind 16 523 A strictly deterministic theory of personal character must have as its correlate the purely necessarian conception of collective evolution. 1961 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 33 206/1 In the Illustrations of political economy..Webb finds her [sc. Harriet Martineau] applying the necessarian formula to the dilemma between paternalism and individualism. 1995 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 33 1411 [The book] elucidates the principal probability types—frequentist, personalist, and necessarian—and distinguishes within each type the method used to handle the problem of measurability. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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