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determinism Definition

de·ter·min·ism (dē tʉrmi 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.