determinism
nounEtymology
Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine + -ism.
- borrowed from déterminisme
Definitions
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.
The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.
The neighborhood
- neighbordeterminist
- neighbordeterministic
- neighborpredeterminedness
- neighborcompatibilism
- neighborincompatibilism
Derived
antideterminism, biodeterminism, biological determinism, creeping determinism, ecodeterminism, economic determinism, genetic determinism, nominative determinism, nondeterminism, non-determinism, predeterminism, retrospective determinism, superdeterminism, technodeterminism, techno-determinism
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for determinism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA