Here are some of the key definitions in support of the doctrine of mental determinism. The definitions are presented in Group One below, in an order which facilitates understanding mental determinism. In the second group, a cluster of definitions is given around the idea of free will, to demonstrate that the doctrine of determinism is not antagonistic to the doctrine of free will in Generative Realism. A conceptualization of change into a fixed time frame and a context of particular objects. Change is continuous but an event is a discrete incident.
Events are human conceptualizations.
An attribution to sequential events based on correlation between them and a mechanism to account for it. The correlation is an observational judgment that we make, and the mechanism is our explanation of that observation. Thus causality is a social-psychological fact, not an objective fact of physics. Mechanism A system of components which consistently operates according to our expectations. Whether something is a mechanism by this criterion is a judgment, and attribution of reliability and predictability.