Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
Because pretty much the same thing goes on in us when we have become the sort of person who would pull a trigger, or run into a building to save a child, or steal an extra cookie, or advocate hard incompatibilism in a book destined to be read only by two people who will hate it.
2023, Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, New York: Penguin, →ISBNSynonyms: hard determinism · Antonyms: compatibilism
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe doctrine that free will and determinism are incompatible, that one necessarily precludes the other.
Origin
Translations
German Inkompatibilismus
- InkompatibilismusTranslations
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incompatibilism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incompatibilism
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