determinism

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine +‎ -ism.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/

• Audio (Midwestern US):

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Noun

determinism (countable and uncountable, plural determinisms)

1. (philosophy) The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.

   Synonym: fatalism

   Antonym: indeterminism

   Hyponyms: hard determinism, soft determinism

   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 420:

     In 1903 there appeared Problems of Idealism, a collection of essays many of whose authors had recently been Marxists, but which condemned Marxism and materialism for their moral nihilism, contempt of personality, determinism, and fanatical pursuit of social values regardless of the individuals who made up society.

   • 2015 January 1, John Danaher, “The Free Will Debate: Sourcehood or Alternative Possibilities?”, in Philosophical Disquisitions‎^[1]:

     Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view is just part of this overall argument.

2. (computing) The property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.

   Antonym: indeterminism

Derived terms

• antideterminism
• biodeterminism
• biological determinism
• creeping determinism
• ecodeterminism
• economic determinism
• genetic determinism
• nominative determinism
• nondeterminism
• non-determinism
• predeterminism
• retrospective determinism
• self-determinism
• superdeterminism
• techno-determinism
• technodeterminism

Related terms

• determinist
• deterministic
• predeterminedness

Translations

notion in ethics

• Afrikaans: determinisme
• Arabic: حَتْمِيَّة f (ḥatmiyya)
• Armenian: դետերմինիզմ (hy) (determinizm)
• Asturian: determinismu m
• Azerbaijani: determinizm
• Belarusian: дэтэрмінізм m (determinizm)
• Catalan: determinisme (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 決定論 / 决定论 (zh) (juédìnglùn)

• Czech: determinismus m
• Dutch: determinisme (nl) n
• Esperanto: determinismo (eo)
• Estonian: determinism (et)
• Finnish: determinismi (fi)
• French: déterminisme (fr) m
• Galician: determinismo (gl) m
• Georgian: დეტერმინიზმი (deṭerminizmi)
• German: Determinismus (de) m
• Greek: αιτιοκρατία (el) f (aitiokratía)
• Hebrew: דטרמיניזם (he) m (determinizm)
• Hungarian: determinizmus (hu)
• Icelandic: nauðhyggja f
• Indonesian: determinisme (id)
• Italian: determinismo (it) m
• Japanese: 決定論
• Korean: 결정론(決定論) (ko) (gyeoljeongnon)
• Latvian: determinisms m
• Lithuanian: determinizmas m
• Macedonian: детермини́зам m (determinízam)
• Malay: faham penentuan, determinisme
• Malayalam: നിയതിവാദം (niyativādaṁ)
• Persian: تعین‌گرایی
• Polish: determinizm (pl) m
• Portuguese: determinismo (pt) m
• Romanian: determinism (ro) n
• Russian: детермини́зм (ru) m (determinízm)
• Serbo-Croatian: determinizam (sh) m
• Slovak: determinizmus m
• Slovene: determinizem m
• Spanish: determinismo (es) m
• Swedish: determinism (sv) c
• Tagalog: determinismo
• Tajik: ҷабргароӣ (jabrgaroyi)
• Thai: นิยัตินิยม (th) (ní-yát-dtì-ní-yom)
• Turkish: determinizm (tr)
• Ukrainian: детермінізм m (determinizm)
• Uzbek: determinizm (uz)
• Vietnamese: lý thuyết tất định

notion in computing

• Portuguese: determinismo (pt) m
• Russian: детермини́зм (ru) m (determinízm)
• Spanish: determinismo (es) m
• Swedish: determinism (sv) c

See also

• compatibilism
• incompatibilism

Further reading

• determinism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French déterminisme.

Noun

determinism n (uncountable)

1. determinism

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	determinism	determinismul
genitive-dative	determinism	determinismului
vocative	determinismule

Swedish

Noun

determinism c

1. (philosophy) determinism
2. determinism (something being determined by the initial conditions)

Declension

Declension of determinism

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	determinism	determinisms
	definite	determinismen	determinismens
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Related terms

• determinist
• deterministisk

See also

• fatalism
• predestination
• ödestro

References

• “determinism”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “determinism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “determinism”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)