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the principle that all information and events embody natural laws. A key component of naturalist writing.
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Determinism is the capacity for a computer network- driven control system to provide a piece of data every time, on time, without fail. Continuous process measurements such as temperature and pressure, where updates can be at 0.1-, 0.5-, or 1-second intervals are nondeterministic. Critical discrete applications require deterministic control and need scan times as fast as 1 millisecond to preclude lost machine cycles, damaged equipment, or injury.
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The idea that everything that happens, from the motions of the planets to the decay of dead plants to the actions of human beings, is determined by prior conditions. Thus there can be no free will on the part of human beings, nor can outside agents (God or the Gods) have an effect upon the course of events. The atomists were determinists in the ancient world. Many modern thinkers, under the influence of science, adopted a similar view. ...
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A philosophical position having to do with the degree to which free will is completely free or controlled and shaped by environmental, social or divine events. Extreme determinism would indicate human existence with the concept of free choice, but no free choice. Determinism describes some Church doctrines such as "hyper-Calvinism" in which God's elect are pre-chosen, and no one can choose to come to Christ without that election. It result in Christ dying not for all but only for the elect.
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