The doctrine that the future is already fixed and its apparent open nature is illusory. This idea is often extrapolated from determinism, since if every event has a cause, the future will occur inexorably from the events of the past and the present. But predeterminism assumes that causality and therefore the future exist in-themselves, when actually all events and causes are conceptualizations made by humans. Therefore, predeterminism is an erroneous doctrine within the context of these definitions. The doctrine that no human action can influence events.
Determinism makes no such claim.
Fatalism is an erroneous doctrine within the context of these definitions. A mental cause of an event. Accident An event without apparent cause. Determinism insists that there is a cause, though it may not be apparent. An intuition of some state of affairs other than the present one, 2.