nonresponsibility

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English

Etymology

From non- +‎ responsibility.

Noun

nonresponsibility (uncountable)

  1. Absence of responsibility; not being responsible.
    • 2007 July 17, Ishtiyaque Haji, “Reflections on the Incompatibilist’s Direct Argument”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 1, →DOI:
      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.