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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

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determinism Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • create: Boundaries I look at the form of determinism created by the mind.

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.

Modifies a noun

  • debate: One of the problems with the free will and determinism debate is that the concepts have several meanings.

Noun used with modifier

  • subconscious: When anxiety becomes attached to the memory of an event it causes the problem of subconscious determinism.
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   In retrospect it always seems as if everything had to develop just the way it did. I call this view the fallacy of retrospective determinismöwhich looks at the modern world as a victory of the children of light over the children of darkness if we approve of the development, and of darkness over light if we condemn it.

-Bendix, Reinhard

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