Relating to or believing in determinism; governed by cause and effect with no randomness or free choice; predictable based on prior conditions.
From determinist + -ic (adjective suffix). This adjective form emerged as determinism became a major philosophical and scientific concept in physics and philosophy of mind.
Classical physics was deterministic—if you knew every particle's position and velocity, you could theoretically predict the entire future—until quantum mechanics said 'not so fast!' with genuine randomness.
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