Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesA view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and therefore that free will does not exist.
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Moreover, suggestions that compatibilists can refute hard determinism on non-semantic grounds are misguided, building more into hard determinism than an adherent of this view needs to accept. […] Hard determinism merely claims that our actions are brought about by genetics and environment, and that this rules out control.
2009, Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, Shaun Gallagher, editors, Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 128Synonyms: incompatibilism, metaphysical determinism, strict determinism · Antonyms: compatibilism, soft determinism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and therefore that free will does not exist.
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