What is "determinist"

Usage examples of "determinist".

Punishment as a deterrent makes sense to a determinist, but punishment as retribution does not.

The true determinist accepts, enjoys, and learns from the past and the present, observing the cause and effect relationships, and actually trying to use the laws in order to change future moments when they arrive in the present.

Thinking empathicly or like a determinist may not generalize easily from one situation to another, but, at least, it seems to be possible.

He uses fiction to examine its ethical implications and asks a practical question: how may a convinced determinist reach an accommodation with a world in which he has no freedom?

Landing, had been able to find a mathematical logic in the FTL paradox that the philosophical Determinists of the peninsula could accept.

The Determinists and the Absolutists were all but going at each other with knives, and the two most talented designers had been literally having tea with each other as two of their aides met in the hall in a set-to that other aides had had to break up by main force.

There are lots of assiduously propagated myths about the almost mystical implications of lateralization in the human brain, ranging from radical feminist and biological determinist views on left-brain cognitive masculinity versus right-brain affective femininity to the claims of the Catholic Nobel Prizewinning neurophysiologist Sir John Eccles, who asserts that only humans show such functional lateralization, and that the left hemisphere is the seat of the soul.

Nineteenth-century neurophysiologists, studying the determinist arc that connects such a sensory input, via the neurons of the brain or spinal cord, to a motor output, described the phenomenon as a reflex.

For it is in duration that we are free, not in spatialised time, as all determinist conceptions suppose in contradiction.

They attached moral significance and their interpretation of human and atevi origins to a hierarchy of numbers that didn't admit FTL physics — God save him: if he couldn't find a numerical explanation of FTL, thanks to Hanks, the Determinists were going to rise up and call him a liar and insulting to their intelligence for claiming the ship wasn't a case of humans lurking on the station for two hundred years in secret and preparing to swoop down with death rays.

That was the very point the Determinists and the Rational Absolutists fixed as unshakable.

It never surprised me that the Determinists hold the speed of light as a matter of importance: it is important.

Maybe more astonishingly, at least for economic determinists, the teams in baseball's best division, the American League West, finished in inverse order to their payrolls.

One of the characteristics of our time is that it produces men who are determinists by instinct.

The Determinist numerologists would have heard about it: ultimately the astronomers and the space scientists were going to hear the transmissions from the ship.