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.
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
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.
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.