Usage of "determinist"

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Anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny.

Usage of determinist in anglès

People who claim to believe in determinist ideas rarely act on them. 
 The white war: life and death on the italian front 1915-1919 

The late Mark Twain, in his secret heart, was such a determinist. 
 Damn! A Book of Calumny 

I'm not an absolute fool about technology: a determinist or militant naif. 
 Wired 

But it would be a mistake to interpret it in too determinist a fashion. 
 The Irish Times 

In his ethical teaching, at least, Paul is no determinist. 
 Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics 

The preceding view is, as yet, too purely determinist. 
 Civics: as Applied Sociology 

But it shows how little determinism there is in the opinions of a determinist.] 
 Public Opinion 

There you have it, says the psychological determinist. 
 Bergson and His Philosophy 

I inclined to a technological-determinist explanation: Look how your eyes shine when we talk about the network. 
 The Guardian 

Christian theology, when based on the perfection of the Divine nature, has always tended to be determinist. 
 Bergson and His Philosophy 

It would be a techno-determinist mistake, however, to reduce this to the question of productivity and technological advances. 
 The Guardian 

The determinist does not believe in appealing to the will, but he does believe in changing the environment. 
 Orthodoxy 

The pure determinist holds that man's behavior is not free and is only a product of his past. 
 I’m OK – You’re OK 

Of course we can find studies that reinforce gender stereotypes and use a determinist model of the brain. 
 The Guardian 

But how the function of being an owner will figure, no economic determinist as such, can tell you. 
 Public Opinion 

Lenin was not at heart a determinist but a voluntarist: the decisive role was played by human will: his. 
 Modern Times 

determinist

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Determinist through the time

Meanings of determinist in anglès