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DETERMINISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("determinism" is a kind of...):
philosophical doctrine; philosophical theory (a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy)
Domain category:
philosophy (the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "determinism"):
fatalism (a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them)
Derivation:
determinist (anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny)
deterministic (an inevitable consequence of antecedent sufficient causes)
