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Pronunciation: [dɪtˈɜːmɪnˌɪst] (IPA)

Determinist is a term often used to describe someone who believes that all events, including human actions, are predetermined by natural causes or social systems. However, there are several synonymous terms that can be used to describe such individuals with similar beliefs. These include fatalist, predestinarian, inevitabilist, and necessitarian. Fatalist and predestinarian emphasis on the idea of fate or destiny, while inevitabilist and necessitarian focus on the inevitable and necessary nature of events. These terms highlight the different aspects of determinism while essentially conveying the same underlying belief in the predetermined nature of events.

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Usage examples for Determinist

Then he proceeds: The great struggle between the determinist and the indeterminist, between the opponent and the sustainer of the freedom of the will, has ended to-day after more than 2,000 years, completely in favour of the determinist.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
What again is the meaning of organizations, such as we hear of, for giving ethical instruction to the young on a Monistic and determinist basis?
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard
He turned determinist, then fatalist, then mystic.
"Prophets of Dissent Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy"
Otto Heller

Famous quotes with Determinist

  • A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
    Aldous Huxley
  • I am not a determinist but I don't believe in chance either. It serves as another 'explanation' of the world....
    René Magritte
  • The stronghold of the determinist argument is the antipathy to the idea of chance...This notion of alternative possibility, this admission that any one of several things may come to pass is, after all, only a roundabout name for chance.
    William James
  • On the determinist hypothesis an omnipotent God could have prevented all sin by creating us with better natures and in more favourable surroundings. … Hence we should not be responsible for our sins to God.
    J. M. E. McTaggart
  • “When you get to where I am—” “I’ll never get to where you are. I’ll make better choices.” “Choices! You don’t get choices, you get...situations that you react to—the actual cumulative reacts, with whatever half-ass wiring you’ve got at the time, not some hovering ‘soul.’ You’re a mercury switch—if the spring tilts you to the right degree, you complete a circuit, and if it’s got metal fatigue, it tilts you less, and you don’t. You don’t have free will, sonny.” “Of course I do, of course do, what kind of excuse—” “Bullshit. If—” The older Marrity was panting. “If a scientist could know every last detail of your physiology and life experiences, he could predict with absolute accuracy every ‘choice’ you’d make in any moral quandary.” Quandary! To Marrity the sentence sounded as if it had been prepared ahead of time. Not for talking to me, he thought, this old wretch couldn’t have anticipated talking to me—he must have cooked it up for his own solace. “Laplace’s determinist manifesto,” came another man’s languid voice from the background. “it overlooks Heisenberg’s uncertainty.” “Okay,” said the older Marrity furiously, “then it’s probability and statistics that dictate what we’ll do! But it’s not—” “It’s a sin,” said Marrity, breathing deeply himself. To Daphne he projected a vague cluster of images—hugging her, holding her hand—and he was able to have more confidence in his reassurance now. “Said the fourth domino to the twenty-first!” exclaimed the older Marrity, laughing angrily. “‘Ah, wilt Thou with predestination round / Enmesh me and impute my fall to sin?’”
    Tim Powers

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