determinism

noun
/dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/UK

Etymology

Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine + -ism.

  1. borrowed from déterminisme

Definitions

  1. The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of…

    The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.

    • Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view is just part of this overall argument.
  2. The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for determinism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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