determinism
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine + -ism.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/
Audio (General American): (file)
Noun
determinism (countable and uncountable, plural determinisms)
- (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:
- 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.
- (computing) The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.
- Antonym: indeterminism
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
notion in ethics
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notion in computing
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See also
Further reading
determinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French déterminisme.
Noun
determinism n (uncountable)
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | determinism | determinismul |
| genitive-dative | determinism | determinismului |
| vocative | determinismule | |
Swedish
Noun
determinism c
- (philosophy) determinism
- determinism (something being determined by the initial conditions)
Declension
| nominative | genitive | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | indefinite | determinism | determinisms |
| definite | determinismen | determinismens | |
| plural | indefinite | — | — |
| definite | — | — |