necessitarian

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Is it not evident, that the house of the necessitarian is divided against itself?

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  1. Of or pertaining to necessity or to necessitarianism: opposed to libertarian.
  2. One who maintains the doctrine of philosophical necessity, in opposition to that of the freedom of the will: opposed to libertarian. The Arminian has entangled the Calvinist, the Calvinist has entangled the Arminian, in a labyrinth of contradictions. The advocate of free-will appeals to conscience and instinct—to an a priori sense of what ought in equity to be. The necessitarian falls back upon the experienced reality of facts. Froude, Calvinism.

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