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
A soft determinist will assume that free will is compatible with determinism.
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
One needn’t be a Calvinist, or one of their theological descendants, a scientific determinist, to appreciate a good coincidence.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
This showed that the victorious school would have to reckon with the doctrines of the defeated party, and suggested that a determinist theatre might be the ultimate outcome of a compromise.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" by Various
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 social determinists say these students are simply following their tribe.
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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