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voluntarism

voluntarism Voluntarism is the view, contrasted with intellectualism, that will is the most basic principle for explaining mind or reality.

Voluntarism is the view, contrasted with intellectualism, that will is the most basic principle for explaining mind or reality. In this historical usage, it treats willing rather than thought as fundamental.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Intellectualism” (Intellectualism).
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