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deˈterminist, n. and a.
[f. as prec. + -ist.]
A. n. One who holds the doctrine of determinism.
1874Mivart in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 784 The objections of our modern Determinists. 1881Spectator 30 Apr. 574 He is an Agnostic and a Determinist, with no reserves. 1887J. C. Morrison Service of Man ix. 298 The determinist is not less but more resolute in teaching morality than his free-will opponent.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to the theory of determinism.
1860Mansel Proleg. Logica App. Note E. 348, I believe the scheme of liberty is inconceivable only if the determinist argument is unanswerable. 1874Sidgwick Meth. Ethics v. 55 A Determinist scheme of morality. 1885R. H. Hutton in Contemp. Rev. Mar. 388 The necessarian or determinist theory of human action. 1887Fowler Princ. Morals ii. ix. 308 The theory of Hobbes [on Volition] may most appropriately be called Determinist. The actions of men, he holds, are, like all other events, determined, and determined wholly, by antecedent circumstances..The will is ‘the last desire in deliberation’, and our desires are the necessary result of their various antecedents. |