Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
determinism. Worcester .
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- noun The
belief that all events that occur have already beendetermined .
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Examples
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FuzzySlurpers knows that repiggie Jesus rewards the virtuous with wealth and power, and the poor and the darker-skinned are sinners because of predeterminism.
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This may be true, but the pervasive pattern of addictive behavior that finds its way into our economics, our politics, and our interpersonal relationships cannot be just explained away using genetic predeterminism.
Charles Shaw: Viewing Consumer Culture Through the Lens of Addiction 2008
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A sobering look at how man may perceive himself in the future, particularly as ideas about genetic predeterminism takes the place of dying Darwinism.
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A sobering look at how man may perceive himself in the future, particularly as ideas about genetic predeterminism takes the place of dying Darwinism.
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A sobering look at how man may perceive himself in the future, particularly as ideas about genetic predeterminism takes the place of dying Darwinism.
Cooperative Blog » Blog Archive » This about sums it up 2007
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She couldn't look at these soldiers anymore and see them merely as vessels for chemical codes for form and behavior; they'd become victims of genetic predeterminism.
Soul Learner_Tobsha 2006
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This was an epigenetic view that allowed some minimal predeterminism.
Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005
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African Doctor and attempted to deduce from his principles a form of rigid predeterminism little differing from fatalism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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In the meantime the class would take up with him the discussion of predeterminism as outlined in Tuesday's work.
The Vision Splendid William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Suffice it to say, there is nothing white people resent and fear more than poor, uneducated, victimized white people, who, by their very existence, threaten to expose the racial predeterminism the white bourgeoisie so desperately clings to as thinly veiled post hoc justifications for compounding acts of exploitation.
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