The concept of predeterminism is often argued by invoking causal determinism, implying that there is an unbroken chain of prior occurrences stretching back to the origin of the universe.
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Cudworth argued that materialism / mechanism reduced " substance to a corporeal entity, its activity to causal determinism, and each single thing to fleeting appearances in a system dominated by material necessity ."
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Thus, even if causal determinism is true, and even if determinism removes the freedom to do otherwise, there is no reason to doubt that people can still be morally responsible for their behavior.
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::'It does not help, either, that there is a tendency to conflate eternalism the four-dimensional " block universe " view with causal determinism .'( source)
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:: : : :'It does not help, either, that there is a tendency to conflate eternalism the four-dimensional " block universe " view with causal determinism .'( source)
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Even though Laplace is known as the first to express such ideas about causal determinism, his view is very similar to the one proposed by Boscovich as early as 1763 in his book " Theoria philosophiae naturalis ".
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The most common form of causal determinism is nomological determinism ( or scientific determinism ), the notion that the past and the present dictate the future entirely and necessarily by rigid natural laws, that every occurrence results inevitably from prior events.
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Critique that seems more or less to support popular incompatibilistic views can be found in some papal documents especially in the 20th century, no " explicit " condemnation, however, of causal determinism in its most generic form can be found there.
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He wrote on the nature of quantum mechanics and causality where he interpreted spontaneity in nature with the psychological idea that the closer we come to elements in nature or components in the individual, the less tenable is strict causal determinism and the more freedom we must grant to decisive personal elements.
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*"'Delete "'. i created the article and i want it deleted . POV and NOR issues hav been dealt with . the entire contents of this article are being moved to Causal Determinism as they are more appropriate under that heading . The article on Causal Determinism is presently a stub.
