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Opinions differ widely on how far progress is necessary or contingent, and even those who on the whole favored a deter - ministic interpretation were by no means committed to the view that the future of man is taken entirely out of his hands.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MORRIS GINSBERG 1968

Atomistic materialism had been a school of Greek speculation but, as we have seen in the case of Epicurus, carried no necessarily deter - ministic implications.

FREE WILL IN THEOLOGY AUSTIN FARRER 1968

But such a line of development would not be deter - ministic.

DETERMINISM IN HISTORY ALAN DONAGAN 1968

Such views as that a given system of things in the universe is deterministic, or that a given set of events falls within a deterministic system, will hereafter be referred to as “special determinist doctrines,” by con - trast with universal determinism or the doctrine that every event in the universe falls within some deter - ministic system.

DETERMINISM IN HISTORY ALAN DONAGAN 1968

When seeking inductively based laws of historical development, Toynbee treated civilizations as deter - ministic systems, each of which necessarily passes through the stages described above.

DETERMINISM IN HISTORY ALAN DONAGAN 1968

In fact, it makes no sense to request a deter - ministic account of action.

FREE WILL AND DETERMINISM BERNARD BEROFSKY 1968

That is, most biologists adhere to a deter - ministic view of phenomena but assume that a large number of small deterministic effects that cannot and need not be analyzed, give an apparent indeterminacy to phenomena at a higher level.

BIOLOGICAL MODELS R. C. LEWONTIN 1968

As Buckle correctly noted, a powerful motive for resisting deter - ministic or scientifically orientated conceptions of his - torical development has been the conviction that their acceptance is inconsistent with a belief in human free will and responsibility.

CAUSATION IN HISTORY PATRICK GARDINER 1968

At times a mechanistic or deter ministic theory of causation is held applicable to the whole of nature, including man.

CAUSATION IN LAW THOMAS A. COWAN 1968

Various renewal ideologies, because of their deter - ministic and cyclical nature, proved to be incompatible with the Judeo-Christian conception of time and his - tory moving in a linear and irrepeatable direction and with the assumptions about man's genuine, if limited, freedom to make history.

REFORMATION LEWIS W. SPITZ 1968