impossibilism en · NOUN
Etymology
From impossible + -ism.
Meanings
- (uncountable) A belief in unrealizable or impractical policies.
- (Marxism, uncountable) A socialist doctrine that stresses the limited value of political, economic, and social reforms within a capitalist economy, arguing that the pursuit of such reforms strengthens support for the existing system.
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(uncountable) The view that free will does not exist and is simply impossible.
In the next section I examine five fatalist arguments for impossibilism and show that they all fail, and some for reasons more subtle than is usually thought.
2013, Kadri Vihvelin, Causes, Laws, and Free Will: Why Determinism Doesn't Matter, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 35: