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determinismde‧ter‧min‧is‧m /dɪˈtɜːmənɪzəm $ -ɜːr-/ noun [uncountable] - But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.
- Despite their determinism, the behaviors generated look extremely random.
- Elite theorists, therefore, stand as something of a half-way house' between Marxist determinism and pluralist voluntarism.
- Let us see how physical determinism is to be interpreted in terms of phase space.
- Perhaps even more than Althusser, Foucault represents a decisive move away from economic determinism.
- The necessary order in the historical determinism of Karl Marx is in the contingencies.
- These problems of determinism have been discussed over the centuries.
- We shall see how this affects the question of determinism in these theories.
► Philosophycausation, nouncosmogony, noundeconstruction, noundeterminism, noundialectic, nounexistentialism, nounfree will, nounhumanism, nounhypothesis, nounidealism, nouninduction, nouninductive, adjectivelateral thinking, nounMarxism, nounmaterialism, nounmetaphysical, adjectivemetaphysics, nounnihilism, nounontology, nounphilosopher, nounphilosophical, adjectivephilosophize, verbpositivism, nounpostulate, nounprecept, nounsolipsism, nounsyllogism, nounTao, nounTaoism, nounthinker, nounthought, nountranscendentalism, nounutilitarian, adjectiveutilitarianism, nounyang, nounyin, nounyin and yang, noun ADJECTIVE► biological· There may well have been, but an examination of those described shows the limitations of biological determinism.· But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.· Feminists are also realizing that a rejection of biology can, paradoxically, increase the influence of biological determinism.· Surely their replacing biological determinism with social constructionism presents too limited a dialectic.· Chomsky is committed to an axiom of biological determinism.· This reveals a fundamental contrast between either biological or sociological determinism and the patriarchy thesis. ► economic· Perhaps even more than Althusser, Foucault represents a decisive move away from economic determinism.· The basic fallacy in all variations of these theories is their crude mechanistic economic determinism.· However, structuralist Marxists fail to carry through their qualification of economic determinism.· But we are too addicted in our social comment to this kind of mechanical economic determinism.· Some critics also argue that any qualification of economic determinism threatens the distinctiveness of Marxism. ► technological· Contingency theory thus combines elements of technological and social determinism.· I shall discuss later the theoretical objections to technological determinism. the belief that what you do and what happens to you are caused by things that you cannot control—deterministic /dɪˌtɜːməˈnɪstɪk◂ $ -ɜːr-/ adjective |