Similar words: deterministic, determining, determine, determiner, determined, determinant, determinate, predetermine. Meaning: [-mɪnɪzəm] 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.
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1. I don't believe in historical determinism.
2. Chomsky is committed to an axiom of biological determinism.
3. Despite their determinism, the behaviors generated look extremely random.
4. Surely their replacing biological determinism with social constructionism presents too limited a dialectic.
5. Let us see how physical determinism is to be interpreted in terms of phase space.
6. The replacement of free will with scientific determinism was consequently the crucial starting point for the new positivist criminology.
7. Since determinism can never be proved, determinists are in an exactly similar position to theists.
8. In recent times, the argument for determinism has been based on science.
9. The potentially damaging essentialism and determinism of this approach is deflected by an argument that there is no inevitability in these forms.
10. Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions.
11. These problems of determinism have been discussed over the centuries.
12. But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.
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13. Let us try to examine the nature of this Newtonian determinism a little more closely.
14. Characteristically, the patriarchy thesis generates a revolutionary ideology rather than a fatalistic acceptance of determinism and relativism.
15. This reveals a fundamental contrast between either biological or sociological determinism and the patriarchy thesis.
16. We shall see how this affects the question of determinism in these theories.
17. Contingency theory thus combines elements of technological and social determinism.
18. However, structuralist Marxists fail to carry through their qualification of economic determinism.
19. But we are too addicted in our social comment to this kind of mechanical economic determinism.
20. The basic fallacy in all variations of these theories is their crude mechanistic economic determinism.
21. There may well have been, but an examination of those described shows the limitations of biological determinism.
22. Some critics also argue that any qualification of economic determinism threatens the distinctiveness of Marxism.
23. They will get attention in connection with the second hypothesis of the theory of determinism of this book.
24. Nor is science concerned with just the kinds of generalization that make up a theory of determinism with respect to our lives.
25. There is probably not much survival advantage to be gained from discovering a grand unified theory or answering questions about determinism.
26. Feminists are also realizing that a rejection of biology can, paradoxically, increase the influence of biological determinism.
27. Elite theorists, therefore, stand as something of a half-way house' between Marxist determinism and pluralist voluntarism.
28. To gain a richer understanding of the problem of holism we must therefore distinguish it from the problem of determinism.
29. To the extent that positivist criminology incorporates a realistic, manageable version of determinism, it becomes compatible with its classical predecessor.
30. Perhaps even more than Althusser, Foucault represents a decisive move away from economic determinism.
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