PHI 4500- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 43 pages long!)
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Brief answer a sentence or two: define determinism. (without using any variation of the word determines"). (do not give. The laws of nature are such that how the world is at any point in time completely determines how the world is at any other point in time. The future is always permanently fixed in such a way that there is nothing that anyone can do to alter its course of events. A complete true description of the world at any given point in time, conjoined with a complete true statement of the laws of nature, entails every truth about how the world is at every later time. Every event, including one"s own choices and actions is determined by a chain of causes extending back in time. The idea that every event in the universe necessarily occurs as the result of a cause.
