How to Use determinism in a Sentence

determinism

noun

• His was a kinder form of the historical determinism of a Morgan or a Grant perhaps, but no less blinkered and time-bound.
  — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
• But determinism and fate vs. free will are not the main focuses of the play.
  — Jack Butler, National Review, 3 July 2021
• For them, the idea of determinism – that one thing leads to another – is sacrosanct.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2022
• And when you're done, check out this 2007 piece by Mike Hulme, who also warned about the seduction of climate determinism.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 20 Mar. 2014
• If the answer to the Question is free will, then the answers to the other questions matter. If determinism is the law of the universe, then nothing matters.
  — Craig Hanks, National Review, 2 May 2020
• I’d spent more than enough time thinking about determinism.
  — Mark Greif, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2016
• What happens to Didion when a narrow and cracked determinism swallows not just the women’s movement but the whole world?
  — Zadie Smith, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2021
• In a purely neurological sense, if determinism held sway, his patients have no free will and no hope.
  — Steve Volk, Discover Magazine, 10 Dec. 2013
• In the Mandelbrot set, order and chaos lived in harmony; determinism and free will could be reconciled.
  — Quanta Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• Researchers shy away from calling children psychopaths; the term carries too much stigma, and too much determinism.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• Both determinism and free will can lend themselves to a conception of life that implies a sense of underlying order.
  — The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• Third, the moral challenge to retribution has nothing to do with freedom or determinism.
  — Kieran Setiya, The Atlantic, 3 Nov. 2023
• This one-two punch of determinism and reversibility means that, in terms of physics, information must be preserved during any process.
  — Paul Sutter, Ars Technica, 3 Oct. 2022
• Well, an algorithm is simply a series of predictable steps to reach an outcome, and in the study of philosophy, this idea plays a big part in questions about free will versus determinism.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 10 June 2021
• The war on terror had just been declared, and the unfolding American military action was cloaked in purposeful determinism in the name of freedom and against tyranny.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2021
• Instead the world is a layer cake of determinism and indeterminism.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• And yet, despite the risks, Ademidun resides on the optimistic side of technological determinism.
  — Robert Stevens, Fortune, 28 Dec. 2022
• In a case of nominative determinism at its best, Parrott—a tall, bespectacled righty from southern California—was a first-round draft pick of the Orioles.
  — Jon Tayler, SI.com, 18 June 2019
• By casting a cross-section of Britons from different classes, the series of TV productions set out to obtain documentary proof of class determinism.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 11 Jan. 2021
• Kelvin Droegemeier great example of nominative determinism — where your name lines up with your job — as Kelvin is the name of a unit on the thermodynamic temperature scale (one Kelvin is equal to one degree on the Celsius scale).
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 1 Aug. 2018
• Spider-Man in black was moodier and spookier; comics costumes tend toward that kind of visual determinism in general.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 3 July 2019
• The Standard Version is a species of technological determinism, in which forms of society correspond to modes of production.
  — George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
• But even they might be led astray by historical determinism: the presupposition of outcomes that representative data in the present has yet to reveal.
  — Osita Nwanevu, The New Republic, 4 Sep. 2020
• In her wonderful book Close to the Machine, author Ellen Ullman tells stories of technological determinism in action.
  — Jennifer Granick, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2007
• Moreover, with this formalism, the strict determinism implied by Einstein’s equations gives way to a quantum-like unpredictability.
  — Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2020
• This doctrine, known as determinism, was advocated passionately by the philosopher Baruch Spinoza, whom Einstein considered a great hero.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Sep. 2015
• A century ago the Bolshevik revolution was seen as an endorsement of Marx’s determinism.
  — The Economist, 26 Oct. 2017
• In this, Tsumura’s story resists the economic determinism of the American office novel, which tends to draw attention to the deadening employment ecosystem its characters are a part of.
  — Apoorva Tadepalli, The Atlantic, 2 Apr. 2021
• Technological determinism is perhaps the great intellectual temptation of our decade—try not to fall for it.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 27 Apr. 2018
• In general, overzealous applications of these technologies can be driven by a kind of genetic determinism — the naïve view that the meaningful differences between organisms within a population can be explained (mostly) by their genetic makeup.
  — Shawn Walsh, Quanta Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024