Determinism

The claim that, given the past and the laws, the choice could not have been otherwise.

This is a claim about the fixation of events, not a mood and not a political program. It can be combined with several views of blame. Laplace’s image of a complete predictor is a historical picture of the idea, not a result in contemporary physics that this page pretends to report.

Six axes

• Freedom

Philosophers

• David Hume

• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Causal Determinism”