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What is another word for Necessarian?

Pronunciation: [nˌɛsɪsˈe͡əɹi͡ən] (IPA)

The term necessarian refers to someone who believes that every event and action is predetermined by a fixed chain of causation. It can be used to describe a philosophical or theological view that denies the existence of free will. However, there are several synonyms that can be used to describe this concept. These include determinist, fatalist, predestinarian, and predeterminist. All of these words are used to describe a belief that everything that happens in the world is ultimately the result of forces beyond our control, and that our actions are determined by factors beyond our will. While these words have slightly different connotations, they are all used to describe a similar worldview.
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Reward and punishment must be considered, by the Necessarian, merely as motives which he would employ in order to procure the adoption or abandonment of any given line of conduct.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
Naturally she became a Necessarian, and adopted strenuously the dogma of the invariable and inevitable action of fixed laws.
"Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century"
W. H. Davenport Adams

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