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determinism

noun as in fatalism

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This son has begun thrumming the strings of hereditary determinism, and is finding them holding taut.

“The idea that our genes control our fates is called genetic determinism,” Lewis says.

I have discussed this question at length in my "Determinism or Free Will."

The same method should be followed with all the other expressions in the Bible which appear to teach determinism.

We shall see that Hasdai Crescas was more consistent, and admitted determinism.

In the present instance the objections to determinism are much greater and more serious than those to freedom.

This determinism is in the one case what Bergson calls "radical finalism," and in the other "radical mechanism."

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On this page you'll find 8 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to determinism, such as: acceptance, passivity, predestinarianism, predestination, stoicism, and destinism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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