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Necessarian

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Nec`es`sa´ri`an
n.1.An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a necessitarian.
a.1.Of or pertaining to necessarianism.


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147); inform John Thelwall, "Guilt is out of the Question--I am a Necessarian and of course deny the possibility of it" (CL 1.
He asserted free will and preferred to call himself a necessarian, holding a doctrine that directly links causes to their effects and presumes that the same mechanical laws that worked in the physical order also worked in the human.
The empiricist and necessarian philosopher denies the self-determining power of the mind by attributing the association of ideas to an external first cause; the idealist, finding an innate cause (the imagination) for association, asserts exactly that power.
 
 
 
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