MetaGlossary.com: Determinism

Keywords: Philosophy, Naturalist, Destiny, Anybody, Predict

Related Terms: Platonic, Positivism, Associationism, Destiny, Determinism, Empirical, Epistemology, Existentialism, Fatalism, Idealism, Idealism, Knowledge, Materialism, Materialist, Metaphysical, Metaphysics, Monism, Natural, Naturalism, Occasionalism, Phenomenology, Philosophy, Platonism, Pragmatism, Principle, Realism, Reality, Teleological, Teleology, Theory, Transcendental, Vitalism, Wisdom, Principles, Theory Of Everything, Categorical Imperative, Natural Law, Self-Perception Theory, Social Comparison Theory, Pluralism, Reductionism, Mechanism, Reality Principle, Self-Actualization, Anthropic Principle, Scientific Theory, Rational Choice Theory, Confirmation Bias, Existence

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The philosophy of destiny: that the course of history is predetermined, and there's nothing that anybody can do to change that. This leads to fatalism.

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supposing general laws of nature.

http://huizen.daxis.nl/~henkt/glossary-ethics-of-common-sense.htm

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the principle that all information and events embody natural laws. A key component of naturalist writing.

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the philosophy whereby all actions which obey physical laws should be quantified and predictable, a philosophy whereby apparent randomness should be explainable and predictable

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The idea that given the initial state of the universe and the principles at work within it, it is possible, in principle, to predict the state of the universe at any point in time.

http://beingism.org/essay/glossary.html

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