(philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will
Mill tried to reconcile criminal law and its punishments with his very hard type of determinism by saying that law was needed in order to weight the scale, and in order to hold out a prospect of penalties which might deter from crime and impel towards good citizenship, so Paley held that virtue was
The controversy between determinism and libertarianism hinges largely on the significance of the word motive; indeed in no other philosophical controversy has so much difficulty been caused by purely verbal disputation and ambiguity of expression.
Realism, more particularly of the Wundt type, is represented by Emericus Pauer, Az ethikai determinismus ( Ethical Determinism ), and Eugen Posch (Az idorb'l, On Time ).
Determinism had other forms besides that of a crude materialism, and the direction that Malebranche succeeded in giving to speculation led only to the more complete denial of freedom and individuality in the all-devouring pantheism of Spinoza.
8 Ordinary inductive empiricism shows that it has travelled far from this unprejudiced credulity when it asserts its hard determinism - uniform law, never broken, never capable of being broken.
determinism הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד