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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 willplay

    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)

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