| 单词 | historical determinism |
| 释义 | > as lemmashistorical determinism historical determinism n. the belief that historical processes are determined by factors typically beyond influence of individual human agency; (sometimes) spec. the belief that future developments can be predicted once the nature of the determining factors has been understood; cf. historicism n. 3b. ΚΠ 1903 L. F. Ward Pure Sociol. iv. 56 Before Comte had given name and form to sociology Saint-Simon, Bastiat, Carey, and John Stuart Mill had more or less clearly formulated the general doctrine of historical determinism. 1948 Antioch Rev. 8 452 The occult worship of the alleged march of historical determinism..has given us myth not reason. 2011 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 27 Aug. What dominated historical writing was a belief in historical determinism. < as lemmas |
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