Usage examples (35)

• I think this necessitarian or deterministic conception of design raises problems.
• Plainly enough, non-theists and necessitarian theists disagree about the layout of logical space, i.e., the space of possible worlds.
• Deterministic or “necessitarian” philosophy of nature, argued Peirce, cannot explain the undeniable phenomena of growth and evolution.
• Evidently, for Spinoza, strict necessitarian determinism is consistent with a genuine distinction between action and passion, between doing and suffering an act.