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A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley

Meaning of "determinist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DETERMINIST

determinist  [dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DETERMINIST

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Determinist is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DETERMINIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

determinist

Determinism

Determinism is the philosophical position that for every event, including human action, there exists conditions that could cause no other event. "There are many determinisms, depending upon what pre-conditions are considered to be determinative of an event." Deterministic theories throughout the history of philosophy have sprung from diverse and sometimes overlapping motives and considerations. Some forms of determinism can be empirically tested with ideas from physics and the philosophy of physics. The opposite of determinism is some kind of indeterminism. Determinism is often contrasted with free will and moral responsibility. Determinism often is taken to mean causal determinism, which in physics is known as cause-and-effect. It is the concept that events within a given paradigm are bound by causality in such a way that any state is completely determined by prior states. This meaning can be distinguished from other varieties of determinism mentioned below. Other debates often concern the scope of determined systems, with some maintaining that the entire universe is a single determinate system and others identifying other more limited determinate systems.

Definition of determinist in the English dictionary

The definition of determinist in the dictionary is a person who believes in philosophical determinism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DETERMINIST


alpinist
ˈælpɪnɪst
antifeminist
ˌæntɪˈfɛmɪnɪst
arcanist
ɑːˈkeɪnɪst
Brahminist
ˈbrɑːmɪnɪst
Darwinist
ˈdɑːwɪnɪst
ecofeminist
ˌiːkəʊˈfɛmɪnɪst
feminist
ˈfɛmɪnɪst
finest
ˈfaɪnɪst
illuminist
ɪˈluːmɪnɪst
indeterminist
ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪnɪst
Marxist-Leninist
ˈmɑːksɪstˈlɛnɪnɪst
misogynist
mɪˈsɒdʒɪnɪst
nonfeminist
ˌnɒnˈfɛmɪnɪst
phenomenist
fɪˈnɒmɪnɪst
postfeminist
pəʊstˈfɛmɪnɪst
profeminist
prəʊˈfɛmɪnɪst
Stalinist
ˈstɑːlɪnɪst
terminist
ˈtɜːmɪnɪst
thinnest
ˈθɪnɪst
violinist
ˌvaɪəˈlɪnɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DETERMINIST

determinably
determinacy
determinant
determinantal
determinate
determinately
determinateness
determination
determinative
determinatively
determinativeness
determinator
determine
determined
determinedly
determinedness
determiner
determining
determinism
deterministic

WORDS THAT END LIKE DETERMINIST

burinist
chauvinist
clavecinist
cocainist
communist
concertinist
declinist
doctrinist
Jainist
Latinist
Leninist
libidinist
machinist
magazinist
male chauvinist
mandolinist
masculinist
rabbinist
routinist
tambourinist
trampolinist

Synonyms and antonyms of determinist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «determinist» into 25 languages

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The translations of determinist from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «determinist» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

决定论
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

determinista
570 millions of speakers

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determinist
510 millions of speakers

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determinist
380 millions of speakers
ar

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الحتمية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

детерминистом
278 millions of speakers

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determinista
270 millions of speakers

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determinist
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déterministe
220 millions of speakers

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Penentu
190 millions of speakers

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Determinist
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

決定論者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

결정 론적
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Determinist
85 millions of speakers
vi

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determinist
80 millions of speakers

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determinist
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्धारक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

determinist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

determinista
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

deterministyczne
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

детерміністом
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

deterministă
30 millions of speakers
el

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ντετερμινιστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

deterministische
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

deterministisk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

determinist
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DETERMINIST»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about determinist

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QUOTES WITH «DETERMINIST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word determinist.
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Aldous Huxley
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DETERMINIST»

Discover the use of determinist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to determinist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Free Will and Consciousness: A Determinist Account of the ...
In this book, Gregg D. Caruso examines both the traditional philosophical problems long associated with the question of free will, such as the relationship between determinism and free will, as well as recent experimental and theoretical ...
Gregg D. Caruso, 2012
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Leibniz : Determinist, Theist, Idealist: Determinist, ...
This book presents an in-depth interpretation of three important parts of Leibniz's metaphysics, thoroughly grounded in the texts as well as in philosophical analysis and critique.
Robert Merrihew Adams Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Philosophy Yale University, 1994
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Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist
This book presents an in-depth interpretation of three important parts of Leibniz's metaphysics: the metaphysical part of Leibniz's philosophy of logic, his essentially theological treatment of the central issues of ontology, and his theory ...
Robert Merrihew Adams, 1998
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Philosophical Problems and Arguments: An Introduction
One could plausibly contend that there is some merit to the final remarks of both the libertarian and the determinist. The determinist claims with some plausibility that the evidence that a person could have done otherwise is not adequate to ...
James W. Cornman, Keith Lehrer, George Sotiros Pappas, 1992
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Reality at Risk: A Defence of Realism in Philosophy and the ...
determinist system the whole point of reasoning and assessing evidence is to decide what is true, and even though mistakes occur, it is not an accident that beliefs are true or that knowledge is gained. Determinism cannot adequately explain ...
Roger Trigg, 1980
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Pluralism and Personality: William James and Some ...
42 Of course, the determinist cannot admit this because it would contradict the very premises of his determinism. Hence, the determinist is forced into a radically pessimistic view of the world in which there can be no regrets about anything.
Don S. Browning, 1980
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Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing ...
2. THE. DETERMINIST. FIX. Some obstacles to the further development of the linguistic approach to history in the 1990s Gareth Stedman Jones In this article, British labor historian Gareth Stedman Jones traces the adoption of "linguistic turn" ...
Gabrielle M. Spiegel, 2005
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Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?
While the hard determinist understands an interrelated set of normative terms on the basis of self-formation, the compatibilist understands a homophonic set on the basis of a meaning of control without self-formation.As a result, they often talk  ...
Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, Shaun Gallagher, 2009
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Law, Institution and Legal Politics: Fundamental Problems of ...
The determinist refuses to regard the action determining information process as prima causa. Freedom to act - in the sense discussed earlier - exists; what does not exist is freedom of volition in the sense that volition - interpreted as action ...
Ota Weinberger, 1991
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Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy
His contribution has been to show that the usual epistemological aspects of economic determinist positions, their empiricist or rationalist aspects, render them outside Marxian theory, as do the parallel epistemological bases of the more or less ...
Stephen A. Resnick, 1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DETERMINIST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term determinist is used in the context of the following news items.
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A Letter to Millennials: Don't Sleep Through the Revolution
Your generation does not need to surrender to some sort of techno-determinist future. Let's try and “rewire” (Ethan's term) the Internet. «TIME, Jul 15»
2
How Choice And Emotion Can Influence Sexual Orientation
The biological determinist might argue there must have been some gene or hormone that first caused my brain to feel pleasure from seeing one ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
3
The euro, theology and values
Still, as religious-determinist theories go, an interesting one was put forward by Giles Fraser, a well-known left-wing priest of the Church of ... «The Economist, Jul 15»
4
The Maccabees return with new material and Jamie T at …
The fourth album is billed as a studio head, a determinist work that's defined by exactitude and its constantly-changing landscape of South ... «DIY Magazine, Jun 15»
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The return of the new gods: Jedis, auras and online witch schools
But Singler insists she is not a "technological determinist". “Yes, the digital world allows collectivity, but the internet doesn't create us, we create ... «Scroll.in, Jun 15»
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Stay inside this summer: the best new shows on TV
... shame, because my whole summer was going to be chain-smoking in a Fruit Of The Loom vest, impressing women with hot determinist chat. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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Historical texts as literature? We do well to praise EP Thompson
Against both sociological conceptions of class as a static category and economic determinist forms of Marxism, The Making of the English ... «The Conversation AU, Jun 15»
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Cliché and a lack of feeling: Richard Shiff explains why critics have …
Academicised critical formulations—whether they are dialectical, historicist or determinist—have no bearing on the human need for immersion ... «Art Newspaper, Jun 15»
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman on the biggest lie employers tell …
"We live in a probabilistic universe, and we tend to think in determinist ways. If A is data-driven and I think I have that data, how certain am I that ... «Vox, May 15»
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Putin, Stalin, and the Church
Tying the Church to a larger nationalist narrative allows Putin to shift the balance of power away from self-determinist movements. It makes it ... «First Things, May 15»

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