determinism

So much for the work of Pierre-Simon Laplace, the French mathematician, philosopher and king of determinism.

The far more likely doomsday scenario for us is AI-driven, information-fueled determinism.

The idea that people grow up to embody their names is a phenomenon called "nominative determinism", Ms Kihm said.

"A strictly climate determinism perspective is limiting and distorts reality."

"A strictly climate determinism perspective is limiting and distorts reality," Matthew Huber, Professor of Geography in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, wrote to Salon.