2 November 2018
determinism
[dih-tur-muh-niz-uh m]
noun
1. the doctrine that all facts and events exemplify natural laws.
2. the doctrine that all events, including human choices and decisions, have sufficient causes.
Origin of determinism
1840-1850 First recorded in 1840-50; determine + -ism
Related forms
determinist, noun, adjective
deterministic, adjective
deterministically, adverb
nondeterminist, noun, adjective
nondeterministic, adjective
Can be confused
determinism, fatalism, necessitarianism.
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Examples from the Web for determinism
Contemporary Examples
The deterministic narrative just doesn’t work; each state is different, and the picture is muddled.
Why the Republican Party’s Narrative on Income and Voting Failed
Alex Klein
December 10, 2012
Historical Examples
They ascertain politics as sequential, linear, and deterministic.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Mihai Nadin
Some changes are unpredictable, even in deterministic principle.
After the Rain
Sam Vaknin
It, too, has borrowed from the desert something that is deterministic and ineffaceable.
The Secrets of a Kuttite
Edward O. Mousley
(d) By its comprehensive and deterministic Conception of History.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2
Various
In other words, the deterministic influence of circumstances is contingent, not necessary.
Determinism or Free-Will?
Chapman Cohen
We continue using words that on deterministic lines have lost all meaning.
Determinism or Free-Will?
Chapman Cohen
Literacy stood as the rulebook for all these direct, integrated, sequentialized, deterministic occurrences.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Mihai Nadin
The deterministic component carried over from literacy- based practical experiences reflects awareness of action and reaction.
The Civilization of Illiteracy
Mihai Nadin
He had absorbed from Taine his deterministic leaning, luckily tempered by a sensible toleration.
Painted Veils
James Huneker
Today’s quote
You can’t compare an apple to an orange. It will cause a lot of self-esteem issues.
– Craig Sheffer
On this day
2 November 1917 – British Foreign Secretary, James Balfour, presents a declaration of intent to establish a national homeland in Palestine for the Jewish people. It became known as the ‘Balfour Declaration’.
2 November – 10 December 1932 – The Great Emu War, when the Australian government takes military action against a large number of emus running amok in the Campion district of Western Australia, causing crop destruction. Soldiers armed with Lewis guns and 10,000 rounds of ammunition, were dispatched to mow down the unarmed and flighless emus. It was also planned that 100 emu skins were to be collected so that their feathers could be used to make hats for the light horsemen. The initial operation killed somewhere between 50 and 200 emus, with no military casualties. Major Meredith, the officer commanding the operation, likened the emus to Zulus, when he said, ‘If we had a military division with the bullet-carrying capacity of these birds it would face any army in the world… They can face machine guns with the invulnerability of tanks. They are like Zulus whom even dum-dum bullets could not stop‘. After a second operation concluded on 10 December 1932, Meredith claimed that 986 emus were killed from 9860 rounds, at a rate of 10 rounds per bird, with 2,500 emus wounded. The emus continued menacing crops, but rather than taking further military action, the government used a bounty system in which 57,034 bounties were claimed in a six month period in 1934.
2 November 1936 – launch of the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC-TV). World’s first regular television service. Initially broadcasting with a radius of 25 miles. It was taken off-air from 1939 – 1946 because of World War II. Now known as BBC One.
2 November 1942 – Australians recapture Kokoda from the Japanese during the Kokoda Track campaign. The campaign was fought from 21 July 1942 to 16 November 1942, in the Australian territory of Papua New Guinea between Japanese and predominantly Australian forces. The Kokoda Track wound through the Owen Stanley Ranges, which Japanese forces had invaded as they attempted to seize Port Moresby.