1) Fatalism 2) Necessitarianism
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1) Philosophical doctrine 2) Philosophical theory 3) Randomness
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Denies freedom of the will in causality. According to this fateful school of thought, all effects are necessary, and not contingent. It is a cosmological application of Deism.
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Determinism is the philosophical position that for every event, including human action, there exist conditions that could cause no other event. `There are many determinisms, depending upon what pre-conditions are considered to be determinative of an event.` Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have sprung from diverse and .....
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• (n.) The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives.
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The belief that everything is caused by specified factors (antecedent factors) in a predictable way rather than haphazardly; a key assumption within the positivist paradigm
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in philosophy, theory that all events, including moral choices, are completely determined by previously existing causes that preclude free will and ... [23 related articles]
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The philosophical theory that all events are determined (inescapably caused) by preexisting events which, when considered in the context of inviolable physical laws, completely account for the subsequent events. The case for determinism has been variously argued from the inviolability of the laws of...
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Fully ordained in advance. A deterministic chaos system is one that gives random looking results, even though the results are generated from a system of equations.
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In philosophy, the view that every event is an instance of some scientific law of nature; or that every event has at least one cause; or that nature is uniform. The thesis cannot be proved or...
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(de-tur´mĭ-niz-әm) the theory that all phenomena are the result of antecedent conditions, nothing occurs by chance, and there is no free will.
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the principle that all information and events embody natural laws. A key component of naturalist writing.
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De·ter'min·ism noun (Metaph.) The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and invincibly determined by motives. « Its superior suitability to produce courage, as contrasted with scientific physical
determinism , is obvious.»
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Type: Term Pronunciation: dē-ter′mi-nizm Definitions: 1. The proposition that all behavior is caused exclusively by genetic and environmental influences with no random components, and independent of free will.
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the theory that all events (including mental ones) are caused, so that whatever happens cannot happen otherwise. Determinism is opposed to the theory of free will, which holds that human choice is active and unconstrained.
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Determinism is a philosophical theory which holds that the will is not free, but is invincibly determined either - according to the older form of the theory - by a motive furnished by Providence, or - according to the modern form - by the aggregation of inherited qualities and tendencies.
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the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences.
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classical physics is largely deterministic
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noun (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will
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(Lat. de + terminus, end) The doctrine that every fact in the universe is guided entirely by law. Contained as a theory in the atomism of Democritus of Abdera (q.v.), who reflected upon the impenetrability, translation and impact of matter, and thus allowed only for mechanical causation. The term was applied by Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856) to ....
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In philosophy, the view that every event is an instance of some scientific law of nature; or that every event has at least one cause; or that nature is uniform. The thesis cannot be proved or disproved. Determinism is also the theory that we do not have free will, because our choices and actions are caused
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The theory that whatever happens (including human acts) is caused by something else. Physical Determinism maintains that the
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a philosophical concept which postulates that all events, including human actions, are predetermined.
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The doctrine that all events-physical, behavioral, and mental-are determined by specific causal factors that are potentially knowable.
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the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws. · the doctrine that all events, including human choices and decisions, have sufficient causes.
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