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determinism

/dih-tur-muh-niz-uhm/US // dɪˈtɜr məˌnɪz əm //UK // (dɪˈtɜːmɪˌnɪzəm) //

决定论,决定主义,决定性因素,决定性

Related Words

acceptance接受,接纳,受理,接受程度stoicism拘谨主义,委曲求全,坚毅主义,坚毅predestination宿命,宿命论,缘分,预定predestinarianism宿命论,预定论,预言家,预设论passivity被动性,被动,被动的,被动症necessitarianism必要主义,必需品主义,必要性主义,必要性

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
    • : the doctrine that all events, including human choices and decisions, have sufficient causes.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as infatalism
Synonyms
acceptance接受,接纳,受理,接受程度passivity被动性,被动,被动的,被动症predestinarianism宿命论,预定论,预言家,预设论predestination宿命,宿命论,缘分,预定stoicism拘谨主义,委曲求全,坚毅主义,坚毅destinism宿命论,命运主义,命运论,天命论necessitarianism必要主义,必需品主义,必要性主义,必要性

Examples

  • This view, known as technological determinism, is historically flawed, politically dangerous, and ethically questionable.

  • Biological determinism, the idea that human behavior is entirely innate, rightly makes people nervous.

  • 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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