incompatibilism
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Etymology
From in- + compatibilism or incompatible + -ism.
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incompatibilism (uncountable)
- (philosophy) The doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
- Synonym: hard determinism
- Antonym: compatibilism
- 2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
- Because pretty much the same thing goes on in us when we have become the sort of person who would pull a trigger, or run into a building to save a child, or steal an extra cookie, or advocate hard incompatibilism in a book destined to be read only by two people who will hate it.
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