determinism

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Determinism the belief that human actions are governed by the laws of nature.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Determinism, physics-style, assumes that reality is strictly physical.

From Scientific American • Sep. 27, 2021

Defending Stephen Jay Gould's Crusade against Biological Determinism I used to be tough on Stephen Jay Gould, the great evolutionary biologist, who died in 2002.

From Scientific American • Jun. 24, 2011

Defying Determinism The validity of such visions and the nature of leadership itself depend very much on time and place, the deepest patterns of a society.

From Time Magazine Archive

Determinism seems fairly obvious in this case, but Laplace went further to assume that there were similar laws governing everything else, including human behavior.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking