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Determinism is the belief that what you do and what happens to you are caused by things you cannot control — the past, your genes, the laws of physics — so “free choice” may be less free than it feels. It is a philosophy and science word, not café chat.
DeterminismDeterminism is the belief是這樣的信念：that what you do and what happens to you你做的事和發生在你身上的事 are caused by things you cannot control是被你無法控制的東西所造成的——the past, your genes, the laws of physics過去、你的基因、物理定律——so所以 'free choice' may be less free than it feels「自由選擇」可能沒有感覺上那麼自由。It is a philosophy and science word它是哲學和科學用字，not café chat不是咖啡廳裡的閒聊用語。
Though actually, people also stretch it: “economic determinism” is the idea that money and class decide almost everything.
Though actually不過其實，people also stretch it人們也會把它用得更寬：'economic determinism'「經濟決定論」 is the idea that money and class decide almost everything是指金錢和階級幾乎決定了一切的想法。
Someone can believe in determinism and still feel very determined to try; the two ideas only look related. The matching adjective is deterministic: a deterministic system is one where, if you know the start, the next step is already fixed.
Someone can believe in determinism一個人可以相信決定論，and而且 still feel very determined to try同時仍然覺得自己很有決心想去嘗試；the two ideas only look related這兩個想法只是看起來有關係。The matching adjective對應的形容詞 is deterministic是 deterministic：a deterministic system一個 deterministic 的系統 is one where如果，if you know the start你知道起點，the next step is already fixed下一步就已經是固定的。
組成Borrowed from French déterminisme, equivalent to determine + -ism (a belief or system of thought).
同家族的字
- determinethis noun is determine + -ism
- deterministicthe adjective for this kind of belief or system
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
determinismnoun/dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪzəm/
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human-sciencesphilosophysciencesThe doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.
- In 1903 there appeared Problems of Idealism, a collection of essays many of whose authors had recently been Marxists, but which condemned Marxism and materialism for their moral nihilism, contempt of personality, determinism, and fanatical pursuit of social values regardless of the individuals who made up society.
- Pereboom’s book presents probably the best available argument for hard incompatibilism (the view that free will is not compatible with causal determinism), and his defence of the sourcehood view is just part of this overall argument.
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computingengineeringmathematicsThe property of having behavior determined only by initial state and input.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。