Determinism meaning

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The philosophical doctrine that every state of affairs, including every human event, act, and decision, is the inevitable consequence of antecedent states of affairs.
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The doctrine that everything, including one's choice of action, is the necessary result of a sequence of causes.
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(ethics) The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
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(computing) The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.
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  • 8 Ordinary " inductive " empiricism shows that it has travelled far from this unprejudiced credulity when it asserts its hard determinism - uniform law, never broken, never capable of being broken.

  • Mill tried to reconcile criminal law and its punishments with his very hard type of determinism by saying that law was needed in order to weight the scale, and in order to hold out a prospect of penalties which might deter from crime and impel towards good citizenship, so Paley held that virtue was not merely obedience to God but obedience " for 1 Criticism of the scheme, from the point of view of an idealist theism, will be found in John Caird's Introduc to the Phil.

  • The younger theologian has accepted determinism.

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