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nonresponsibility en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + responsibility.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Absence of responsibility; not being responsible.
    • One can, though, strengthen the assumption at issue – the assumption that causal nonresponsibility is not sufficient for moral nonresponsibility – without appeal to the notion of avoidability, so that the resulting, strengthened principle does do the required work of ruling out our being morally responsible for the laws. 2007 July 17, Ishtiyaque Haji, “Reflections on the Incompatibilist’s Direct Argument”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI: