determinist
Americannoun
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determinists
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adjective
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determinismnoun
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deterministicadjective
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non-deterministicadjective
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predeterministicadjective
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deterministicallyadverb
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In these scenes, we see a father’s attempt, clumsily yet movingly, to liberate his son from an overly determinist view of race and class.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2022
This section considers the soft determinist position, in which, as long as the moral agent did not face internal constraints concerning the choice at hand, the action could be free.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
As always, there’s a risk of being a technological determinist here: to assume that Facebook’s algorithms are more powerful they are, or operate in a vacuum.
From The Verge ● Sep. 23, 2021
“Biological determinist arguments all have a similar form,” Dr. Lewontin once wrote in a takedown of sociobiology, dismissing such arguments as all envisioning the same flawed model of society.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2021
To vary the phrase slightly, we must not, on the determinist hypothesis, insult God by taking credit to ourselves for what He has done.
From Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive by Joseph Warschauer
Some determinists will assume that free will is not compatible with determinism.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
As economic determinists, they believed that everything is explained by iron laws of economic development.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 8, 2020
The economic determinists say this is no mystery.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 17, 2012
This was the idea that, contrary to what economic determinists such as Marx said, different “realms” of society could operate according to different principles.
From Economist ● Feb. 3, 2011
But the cultural determinists do not accept this.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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