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    Determinism is the philosophical view that all events in the universe, including human decisions and actions, are causally inevitable. Deterministic theories...
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  • incompatible with determinism is called incompatibilism and encompasses both metaphysical libertarianism (the claim that determinism is false and thus...
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    Environmental determinism (also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism) is the study of how the physical environment predisposes societies...
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  • Technological determinism is a reductionist theory in assuming that a society's technology progresses by following its own internal logic of efficiency...
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    Hard determinism (or metaphysical determinism) is a view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and...
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  • Nominative determinism is the hypothesis that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. The term was first used in the magazine...
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  • Theological determinism is a form of predeterminism which states that all events that happen are pre-ordained, and/or predestined to happen, by one or...
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  • Biological determinism, also known as genetic determinism, is the belief that human behaviour is directly controlled by an individual's genes or some component...
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  • Historical determinism is the belief that events in history are entirely determined or constrained by various prior forces and, therefore, in a certain...
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  • Historical determinism Linguistic determinism Logical determinism Retrospective determinism Theological determinism Psychological determinism Cultural determinism...
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  • Linguistic determinism is the concept that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought, as well as thought processes such...
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  • Cultural determinism is the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. It contrasts with...
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  • Compatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are mutually compatible and that it is possible to believe in both without being logically...
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    published articulation of causal determinism on a scientific basis by Pierre-Simon Laplace in 1814. According to determinism, if someone (the demon) knows...
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  • Social determinism is the theory that social interactions alone determine individual behavior (as opposed to biological or objective factors).[citation...
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  • Psychological determinism is the view that psychological phenomena are determined by factors outside of a person's control. Daniel Bader discusses two...
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  • Look up nondeterminism, non-determinism, nondeterministic, or non-deterministic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Nondeterminism or nondeterministic...
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    Economic determinism is a socioeconomic theory that economic relationships (such as being an owner or capitalist or being a worker or proletarian) are...
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  • Reciprocal determinism is the theory set forth by psychologist Albert Bandura which states that a person's behavior both influences and is influenced...
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  • Psychic determinism is a type of determinism that theorizes that all mental processes are not spontaneous but are determined by the unconscious or preexisting...
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  • has resulted in a surge of interest in determinism in parallel programming and challenges of non-determinism have been well documented. A number of tools...
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    Predestination (category Determinism)
    be regarded as a form of religious determinism; and usually predeterminism, also known as theological determinism. Some have argued that the Book of Enoch...
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    Self-determination refers to a people's right to form its own political entity, and internal self-determination is the right to representative government...
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  • superluminal speeds and spooky action at a distance. But it involves absolute determinism in the universe, the complete absence of free will. Suppose the world...
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    [citation needed] Two models for haematopoiesis have been proposed: determinism and stochastic theory. For the stem cells and other undifferentiated...
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  • Retrospective determinism is the informal fallacy that because something happened under some circumstances, it was therefore bound to happen due to those...
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    Fatalism (category Determinism)
    foreknowledge of all future events. This is very similar to theological determinism. A second such view is logical fatalism, according to which propositions...
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  • A term which describes the execution of a non-deterministic program where all choices are made in favour of non-termination.[citation needed] Wirsing,...
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  • Logical determinism is the view that a proposition about the future is either necessarily true, or its negation is necessarily true. The argument for...
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  • of the productive forces, sometimes referred to as productive force determinism, is a variation of historical materialism and Marxism that places primary...
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