词汇 | determinism |
释义 | determinism noun[ U ] social sciences specializeduk /dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nɪ.zəm/ us /dɪˈtɝː.mə.nɪ.zəm/ the theory that everything that happens must happen as it does and could not have happened any other way决定论(认为一切事物具有不以人的意志为转移的必然性) Philosophy aesthete aesthetic aesthetically anthropocentric anthropocentrism epistemology essentialism existential existentialism existentialist non-deterministic non-philosophical notional ontological ontologically spatiotemporally superorganic supersensible syllogism syllogistic Belief in creativeness and spontaneity replace the older belief in determinism. Determinism is not inconsistent with the cruel treatment of criminals. Determinism thus reflects upon itself and in a curious way turns to operate against itself. Economic determinism has been an antidote to mere preaching of goodness, to hero-worship and political quackery. The critique of science and the assaults upon determinism proceeded upon parallel lines. Examples of determinismdeterminism What the compatibilist claims is simply that our actions may be free and attributable to us even if determinism is true. He questions the concern, widely expressed, that freedom and responsibility are excluded by determinism. Determinism here refers to the idea that the future is dependent upon the present such that, given the present, only one possible future exists. If determinism is true, then we can be morally responsible for our actions, but none of them are right, wrong, or obligatory. But the usual past-to-future determinism is not the fundamental meaning of unitarity. Determinism, however, applies to wave functions (quantum states) rather than to individual particles. Economic determinism suggested that the market was the battlefield upon which the struggle for existence was waged. These range from accounts based on geographical determinism to those of historical revisionism. Its main target is determinism, both hard and soft, as well as treatments of various species of luck as a destroyer of moral responsibility. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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