Determinism

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Determinism \De*ter"min*ism\, n. (Metaph.)
     The doctrine that the will is not free, but is inevitably and
     invincibly determined by motives, preceding events, and
     natural laws.
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           Its superior suitability to produce courage, as
           contrasted with scientific physical determinism, is
           obvious.                                 --F. P. Cobbe.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  determinism
       n : (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events
           are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient
           causes; often understood as denying the possibility of
           free will

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "determinism":
     Calvinism, aftertime, afteryears, by-and-by, course ahead,
     crystal ball, distant future, election, eventuality, expectation,
     fatalism, foresight, forward look, future, future tense, futurism,
     futurity, hereafter, immediate future, immediate prospect,
     imminence, near future, offing, outlook, posteriority,
     predestinarianism, predeterminism, prediction, probability,
     project, prophecy, prospect, the future, the morrow,
     the sweet by-and-by, time ahead, time just ahead, time to come,
     tomorrow