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deterministic /ˌdɪtəːmɪˈnɪstɪk /adjectiveRelating to the philosophical doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes regarded as external to the will: a deterministic theory...- Throughout the book, he emphasizes that an evolutionary approach is not deterministic.
- Strictly speaking this process of inference cannot be completely deterministic.
- He expressed an underlying instability indicative of the gradual disillusionment with the promises of deterministic reasoning.
Derivativesdeterministically /-ˈnɪstɪk(ə)li/ adverb ...- Except where there are minds interfering with it, matter proceeds deterministically, in its own right.
- The capacity for collective commitment to social improvement has been annulled; the future is inscribed deterministically in the present.
- During the Enlightenment humans flirted with the idea of seeing ourselves as machines, deterministically obeying the laws of cause and effect without any real choice.
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