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Definition of Fatalisms
1. fatalism [n] - See also: fatalism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fatalisms
Literary usage of Fatalisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... first, our beginning with those three fatalisms, or false hypotheses of
the "Intellectual System," and promising a confutation of them all then, ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... first, our beginning with those three fatalisms, or false hypotheses of the
Intellectual System, and promising a confutation of them all then, ..."
3. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... as the most pernicious and immoral of fatalisms. Suppose there is a social
equilibrium fated to be, whose is it to be, — that of your preference, ..."
4. The Economic Interpretation of History by Edwin Robert Anderson Seligman (1902)
"... I cannot but consider the talk of the contemporary sociological school about
averages and general causes the most pernicious and immoral of fatalisms. ..."
5. Amenities of Literature: Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"To confute these three fatalisms, or false hypotheses of the system of the
universe, Cudworth designed to dedicate three great works, — one against atheism, ..."
6. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1858)
"For the beginning and end of the lesson is: Take heed of your fatalisms. In 1837
I was sojourning in Spain, with the view of attaining a more perfect ..."
7. Amenities of Literature, Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English by Isaac Disraeli (1842)
"To confute these three fatalisms, or false hypotheses of the system of the
universe, Cudworth designed to dedicate three great works; one against atheism, ..."
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