Definition of "necessarian" [nec•es•sa•ri•an]

• An adherent of necessarianism, an advocate of the doctrine of necessity. (noun)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "But the philosophical necessarian does not grant this postulate."
• "In taking this part, it does not follow that we are to repudiate, as totally without foundation, the philosophy and the metaphysics of the necessarian -- _aequo pretio aestimentur_."
• "But until we can detect the fallacies of the metaphysician, or supply the _connecting link_ which is now wanting, we must rest in the unsatisfactory conclusion that abstract philosophy is with the necessarian, and that liberty and its ennobling consequences, moral agency, and moral responsibility, rest on the solitary basis of moral argument."