The act of determining or deciding something beforehand; a prior decision that fixes what will happen.
From 'foredetermine' + '-ation' (noun-forming suffix from Latin '-atio'). The suffix converts the verb into an abstract noun.
In scientific method, 'foredetermination' is actually good—you must foredetermine your hypothesis and methods before running an experiment, or you're just confirmation-bias hunting.
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