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Fatalist
One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
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Broader term 1
Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or…
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The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives.
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The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives.
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One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
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One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
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The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
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Synonym 3
One who believes in determinism. Also adj.; as, determinist theories.
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Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
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Of or pertaining to predestination; as, the predestinarian controversy.
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