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de·ter·min·ism

(dĭ-tûr′mə-nĭz′əm)

The philosophical doctrine that every state of affairs, including every human event, act, and decision, is the inevitable consequence of antecedent states of affairs.

de·ter′min·ist n.

de·ter′min·is′tic adj.

de·ter′min·is′ti·cal·ly adv.

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Noun

determinist - anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny

fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist

necessitarian - someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will

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determinist

[dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪst]

A. ADJ → determinista

B. N → determinista mf

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

determinist

[dɪˈtɜː^rmɪnɪst]

n (= person) → déterministe mf

adj [idea, doctrine] → déterministe

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determinist

adj → deterministisch

n → Determinist(in) m(f)

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Good innocent creature, worthy wife, excellent mother (of the strict governess type), she was as guileless of consequences as any determinist philosopher ever was.

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Even so, Rosen marshals extensive evidence toward a racially determinist view of American foreign policy.

Border Law: The First Seminole War and American Nationhood

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Call me an economic determinist; the world hasn't ended despite geopolitical ructions left and right.

The trade war isn't showing up any casualties

In so doing she takes issue with determinist approaches, such as Elizabeth Eisenstein's influential thesis that the printing press itself was the agent of change, a necessary precondition for the Reformation, as well as the view that the press developed primarily in response to economic or commercial imperatives.

Agency and Intention in English Print, 1476-1526

Fisher (2006) examined discourse and rhetoric about educational transformation and observed a tendency for some discourse to be framed in technological determinist language that ascribed to technology the power to inevitably cause positive change in schools.

Philosophy of technology assumptions in educational technology leadership

For Perreiah, the dilemma of whether or not the delicate and fluid relationship between thought and language is determinist needed serious sorting out.

Alan Perreiah. Renaissance Truths: Humanism, Scholasticism and the Search for the Perfect Language

Loosely defined, I'm an economic determinist. I think much of the travail occurring in the American political system has its roots in an economy that's not working for many Americans.

Drift v. Mastery: finding a path forward in difficult times

It is put forward as an alternative to the determinist position and it claims to do greater justice to the phenomena of organic, conscious and rational agency than reductive materialism."

Burbridge, John. Cause for Thought: An Essay in Metaphysics

Pah, we'd rather some more of the emaciated Southern gent with the Zappata moustache spouting angsty, determinist dogma before headbutting some perp's nose through the back of his head.

True, it did have a lot to live up to; Bevan on the box

Therefore, in the following paragraphs, this paper examines the construction of sex/gender in more detail, by reviewing the various social constructionist theorists particularly the feminist perspectives and those opposing arguments from the biological determinist point of view.

The conception of 'sex' and 'gender' as background to inequities faced by women

As a determinist, I was in total agreement with Vir Narain ("Determinism, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility," Philosophically Speaking, N/D 2014) right up to the last paragraph, when he undid his finely honed thesis.