Philosophy

• Determinism
  Determinism
  Determinism is the general philosophical thesis that states that for everything that happens there are conditions such that, given them, nothing else could happen. There are many versions of this thesis. Each of them rests upon various alleged connections, and interdependencies of things and...
  
  
• Deterministic system (philosophy)
  Deterministic system (philosophy)
  A deterministic system is a conceptual model of the philosophical doctrine of determinism applied to a system for understanding everything that has and will occur in the system, based on the physical outcomes of causality. In a deterministic system, every action, or cause, produces a reaction, or...
  
  
• Economic determinism
  Economic determinism
  Economic determinism is the theory which attributes primacy to the economic structure over politics in the development of human history. It is usually associated with the theories of Karl Marx, although many Marxist thinkers have dismissed plain and unilateral economic determinism as a form of...
  
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• Historical determinism
  Historical determinism
  Historical determinism is the stance in explaining history or advocating a political position that events are historically predetermined by various forces. Since such explanation is the norm, it may be better understood in contrast to its negation, i.e...
  
  
• Linguistic determinism
  Linguistic determinism
  Linguistic determinism is the idea that language and its structures limit and determine human knowledge or thought. Determinism itself refers to the viewpoint that all events are caused by previous events, and linguistic determinism can be used broadly to refer to a number of specific views.For...
  
  
• Logical determinism
• Retrospective determinism
  Retrospective determinism
  Retrospective determinism is the logical fallacy that because something happened, it was therefore bound to happen; the term was coined by the French philosopher Henri Bergson. For example:This argument gives no logical grounds to conclude Caesar's assassination was the only possible outcome, or...
  
  
• Scientific determinism
• Theological determinism
  Theological determinism
  Theological determinism is a form of determinism which states that all events that happen are pre-ordained, or predestined to happen, by a monotheistic God. Theological determinism exists in a number of religions, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam....
  
  

Computer science

• Deterministic algorithm
  Deterministic algorithm
  In computer science, a deterministic algorithm is an algorithm which, in informal terms, behaves predictably. Given a particular input, it will always produce the same output, and the underlying machine will always pass through the same sequence of states...
  
  
• Deterministic automaton
  Deterministic automaton
  Deterministic automaton is a concept of automata theory in which the outcome of a transition from one state to another given a certain input can be predicted for every occurrence....
  
  
• Deterministic finite-state machine

Sociology and anthropology

• Cultural determinism
  Cultural determinism
  Cultural determinism is the belief that the culture in which we are raised determines who we are at emotional and behavioral levels. This supports the theory that environmental influences dominate who we are instead of biologically inherited traits....
  
  
• Environmental determinism
  Environmental determinism
  Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism or geographical determinism, is the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture...
  
  
• Social determinism
  Social determinism
  Social determinism is the hypothesis that social interactions and constructs alone determine individual behavior ....
  
  
• Technological determinism
  Technological determinism
  Technological determinism is a reductionist theory that presumes that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values. The term is believed to have been coined by Thorstein Veblen , an American sociologist...
  
  

Biology

• Biological determinism
  Biological determinism
  Biological determination is the interpretation of humans and human life from a strictly biological point of view, and it is closely related to genetic determinism...
  
  
• Genetic determinism
  Genetic determinism
  Genetic determinism is the belief that genes determine morphological and behavioral traits and do so with little or no influence from environmental factors....
  
  
• Determinism theory of hematopoiesis

See also

• Determination (disambiguation)
• Indeterminacy (disambiguation)
• Determiner (disambiguation)
• Determinable (disambiguation)