determinism Definition
de·ter·min·ism (dē tʉr′mi niz′əm, di-)
noun
the doctrine that everything, including one's choice of action, is the necessary result of a sequence of causes
determinism Related Forms
de·ter′·min·ist noun, adjective
de·ter′·min·is′·tic adjective
de·ter′·min·is′·ti·cally adverb
determinism Usage Examples
Converse of object
- create: Boundaries I look at the form of determinism created by the mind.
- reject: For Gray Berlins logic goes like this: Berlin rejects Determinism.
- produce: The impersonal will does not of itself produce determinism or confusion, since it is simply a perpetual flow of power.
- imply: Nevertheless, there is a view that realism implies technical determinism.
- avoid: Such studies avoid a global determinism which emerges from mythic thinking and magic behaviors.
- call: One of them is an old fear of something called genetic determinism.
Preposition: in
sense: However, as computing becomes ever more intelligent and more distributed in the upcoming century, determinism in any practical sense will fade away.
Adjective modifier
- technological: The prophets of technological determinism have been with us for some time.
- causal: We also argue that a potent direct challenge to moral responsibility from causal determinism does not succeed.
- genetic: Where does Buddhism stand in regard to genetic determinism, whether hard or soft?
- biological: However, I do not believe in biological determinism.
- crude: Labor's crude economic determinism will not improve those lives made a daily hell by crime.
- linguistic: According to the first, linguistic determinism, our thinking is determined by language.
Modifies a noun
- debate: One of the problems with the free will and determinism debate is that the concepts have several meanings.
- cannot: Craig Venter of Celera may have only just discovered that genetic determinism cannot deliver the goods after he's sequenced the human genome.
- ': The metaphysical connotation of reincarnation is why I prefer the term ' karma ' to ' determinism '.
Noun used with modifier
- subconscious: When anxiety becomes attached to the memory of an event it causes the problem of subconscious determinism.
- medium: And it is this variety of determinism which is sometimes referred to as media determinism.
- force: Mandel's Late Capitalism has a historical schema based on productive forces determinism.
- non-: Further, we introduce a flexible approach to resolving non- determinism which gives this translation a practical advantage.
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