hard determinism en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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.
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 128:
Antonyms
soft determinism · compatibilism
Relateds
Synonyms
incompatibilism · strict determinism · metaphysical determinism