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单词 deterministic
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Definition of deterministic in English:

deterministic

adjective ˌdɪtəːmɪˈnɪstɪkdəˌtərməˈnɪstɪk
  • Relating to the philosophical doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes regarded as external to the will.

    a deterministic theory
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Of course, the universe on one reading is highly abstract and some of its laws are mechanistic and deterministic.
    • He expressed an underlying instability indicative of the gradual disillusionment with the promises of deterministic reasoning.
    • Throughout the book, he emphasizes that an evolutionary approach is not deterministic.
    • Strictly speaking this process of inference cannot be completely deterministic.
    • He rejects each of these ideologies of history, usually because they project a reductive or deterministic model of African-American identity.

Derivatives

  • deterministically

  • adverb -ˈnɪstɪk(ə)li
    • During the Enlightenment humans flirted with the idea of seeing ourselves as machines, deterministically obeying the laws of cause and effect without any real choice.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Warfare under the Newtonian paradigm is deterministically predictable, as effects are in principle calculable from their underlying causes.
      • The assumption is that if determinism is true, then libertarianism - the view that some actions are not deterministically caused - must be false.
      • Except where there are minds interfering with it, matter proceeds deterministically, in its own right.
      • The capacity for collective commitment to social improvement has been annulled; the future is inscribed deterministically in the present.
 
 

Definition of deterministic in US English:

deterministic

adjectivedəˌtərməˈnɪstɪkdəˌtərməˈnistik
  • Relating to the philosophical doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes regarded as external to the will.

    a deterministic theory
    Example sentencesExamples
    • He rejects each of these ideologies of history, usually because they project a reductive or deterministic model of African-American identity.
    • Strictly speaking this process of inference cannot be completely deterministic.
    • Throughout the book, he emphasizes that an evolutionary approach is not deterministic.
    • He expressed an underlying instability indicative of the gradual disillusionment with the promises of deterministic reasoning.
    • Of course, the universe on one reading is highly abstract and some of its laws are mechanistic and deterministic.
 
 
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