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In philosophy:

• Determinism
• Determimistic law
• Deterministic system (philosophy)
• Economic determinism in philosophy of history
• Historical determinism
• Linguistic determinism
• Logical determinism
• Retrospective determinism
• Scientific determinism
• Theological determinism

In computer science: This article is about the general notion of determinism in philosophy. ... A deterministic system is a conceptual model of the philosophical doctrine of determinism applied to a system for understanding everything that has and will occur in the system, based on the physical outcomes of causality. ... When Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels created the ideology of Communism, many Marxists believe they inductively surmised what they saw as a law of history, an inexorable law, that ran throughout the course of history. ... Linguistic determinism is the idea that language shapes thought. ... Retrospective determinism is the logical fallacy that because something happened, it was therefore bound to happen. ... Physicists have sometimes used the term determinism in a special way that people such as Karl Popper and Stephen Hawking have called scientific determinism. ... Theological determinism is the religious view that all events in the world were pre-ordained by God. ...

• Deterministic algorithm
• Deterministic automaton
• Deterministic finite state machine

In sociology and anthropology: In computer science, a deterministic algorithm is an algorithm which, in informal terms, behaves predictably. ... Deterministic automaton are a concept of automata theory in which the outcome of a transition from one state to another given a certain input can be predicted for every occurrence. ... In the theory of computation, a deterministic finite state machine or deterministic finite automaton (DFA) is a finite state machine where for each pair of state and input symbol there is one and only one transition to a next state. ...

• Cultural determinism
• Environmental determinism
• Social determinism
• Technological determinism

In biology: Cultural determinism is a term used to describe the concept that culture determines economic and political arrangements. ... Environmental determinism, also known as climatic determinism, is the view that the physical environment, rather than social conditions, determines culture. ... Social determinism is the hypothesis that social interactions and constructs alone determine individual behavior (as opposed to biological or objective factors). ... Technological is a reductionist doctrine that a societys technology determines its cultural values, social structure, or history. ...

• Biological determinism
• Genetic determinism

In environmental geography: Categories: Biology stubs ... Genetic determinism is the belief that genes largely determine physical and behavioral phenotypes. ...

• Climatic determinism

In mathematics: Climatic Determinism or Environmental determinism is an aspect of economic geography. ...

• Deterministic system (mathematics)

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