hard determinism

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Noun

hard determinism (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) A 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.
    Synonyms: incompatibilism, metaphysical determinism, strict determinism
    Antonyms: compatibilism, soft determinism
    • 2009, Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, Shaun Gallagher, editors, Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 128:
      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.

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