determinism

Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine +‎ -ism.

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determinism (countable and uncountable, plural determinisms)

1. (philosophy) The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.

   Synonym: fatalism

   Antonym: indeterminism

   Hyponyms: hard determinism, soft determinism

   • 2015 January 1, John Danaher, “The Free Will Debate: Sourcehood or Alternative Possibilities?”, in Philosophical Disquisitions‎^[1]:

     Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view is just part of this overall argument.

2. (computing) The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.

   Antonym: indeterminism

• compatibilism
• incompatibilism

• determinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Borrowed from French déterminisme.

determinism n (uncountable)

1. determinism

determinism c

1. (philosophy) determinism
2. determinism (something being determined by the initial conditions)

• determinist
• deterministisk

• fatalism
• predestination
• ödestro

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