The doctrine that everything, especially one's choice of action, is determined by a sequence of causes independent of one's will.
the claim that all events are the necessary result of previous causes
The belief that everything is preordained, including human history.
is the view that everything that happens is caused. When applied to human action, it suggests that our perception of having a free will is an illusion, and that the task of social research is to expose the true causes of action.
The doctrine according to which like causes always produce like effects and, conversely, events are entirely explainable by their antecedent causes.
the assumption that every event has physical, potentially measurable, causes. 34
the belief that types of technology and economic methods that are adopted always determine the type of society that develops
the doctrine that all events are the inevitable result of antecedent conditions, and that the human being, in acts of apparent choice, is the mechanical expression of his heredity and his past environment.
Generally, the doctrine that every fact in the universe is guided entirely by law (in Christian theology, by God's law). All facts in the universe are dependent upon and conditioned by their causes. "Soft" determinism removes the ultimate cause from the immediate cause of a fact; "hard" determinism describes every fact as directly caused by law.
The philosophical assumption that all behavior and observable events have causes.
(philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will
The theory that the universe is so constructed that everything occurs as the inevitable consequence of antecedent causes.
The general philosophical thesis which states that for everything that ever happens there are causal conditions such that, given the conditions, nothing else could happen. When combined with materialism, these antecedent conditions are invariably physical.
the theory that all events (including mental ones) are caused, so that whatever happens cannot happen otherwise. Determinism is opposed to the theory of free will, which holds that human choice is active and unconstrained.
See hard Determinism, Compatabilism/Soft Determinism and Libertarianism and Free will.p Divine Command Theory. The ethical theory that maintains that actions are right or wrong depending on whether they correspond to God's commands or not.
the view that human action is not free, but results from such causes as psychological and chemical makeup which render free-will an illusion
(1) The view that every event in the world has a cause. (2) The view that every event in the world has a finite cause. VT might be considered a determinist in sense (1), but not in sense (2). However, determinisms of both kinds often presuppose impersonal causation as ultimate. In that sense, VT rejected determinism and pointed out that it is equivalent to chance.
A belief that all processes are predetermined by definite causes and natural laws and can therefore be predicted. Biological determinism and mechanical determinism are two variations of this premise. Indeterminism is the reverse of this—a belief that events are governed not by laws but by pure chance.
A philosophical position having to do with the degree to which free will is completely free or controlled and shaped by environmental, social or divine events. Extreme determinism would indicate human existence with the concept of free choice, but no free choice. Determinism describes some Church doctrines such as "hyper-Calvinism" in which God's elect are pre-chosen, and no one can choose to come to Christ without that election. It result in Christ dying not for all but only for the elect.
theory that human action is not free but determined, or decided, by external forces acting on the will (also called fatalism).
A behavior describing repeatability in observed parameters. The order of a set of events does not vary from run to run.
The teaching that every event in the universe is caused and controlled by natural law.
the ability to direct or determine the actions of someone or something. Thus something done "on one's own determinism" would be caused by the person himself, not by a force exterior to him.
States that all causes have effects. States that nothing is random and that all thoughts, actions and feelings are pre-determined. Free will and choice are illusions.
The view that everything in the universe is controlled by previous conditions, and therefore could not be otherwise.
Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, including human cognition, decision and action, is causally determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences. It holds that no random, spontaneous, mysterious, or miraculous events occur. The principal consequence of the deterministic claim is that it poses a challenge to the existence of free will.