### belief | doctrine | philosophical theory:

Determinism
* concernes the question of whether every event is completely determined by a prior cause.
* eliminates moral obligations.
* is correct in that every event has a cause
  - limited by the scope of events it can determine
  - restricted to what is clearly biological, leaving wiggle room for the self-made self
  - shown to coincide with reductionism
* is the belief that some system of events is entirely causal, nothing more, nothing less
  - concept that events in the past fully determine events in the future
  - doctrine that the universe is to some extent, in some way, determinate
  - key to convergence
* refers to the choices which an automaton has in order to make the next move.
* seeks to explain conditions which fatalism is content to describe.
* thus becomes the foundation of all scientific progress and criticism.
* word which is often used to define a closed system of meaning.
+ Free will, In philosophy: Philosophy
  * Determinism is the concept that events in the past fully determine events in the future. To illustrate this Pierre-Simon Laplace proposed a thought experiment in 1814, which he called Laplace's demon. If deterimism is the case, then there can be no free will.

### belief | doctrine | philosophical theory | determinism:

Economic determinism
* is common sense.
* means that historians think history is mostly caused by economics.
+ Historiography, Approaches to history, Determinism
  * Determinism means that historians view history as being more caused by certain factors than other factors. The two most common types of determinism are geographic determinism and economic determinism. Geographic determinism means that historians think history is mostly caused by geography. Frederick Jackson Turner thought that. Economic determinism means that historians think history is mostly caused by economics. Charles Beard thought that. Other historians believe that history is caused mostly by politics or mostly by a struggle for natural rights, but these are not usually called determinism.

Fatalism
* are determinism.
* is determinism
* is the belief that all events are predetermined and controlled
  - concept that all events happen by blind, impersonal forces, i.e., by chance
  - lazy man's way of accepting the evitable
* philosophy for the oppressed.
* says that all is destiny.

Genetic determinism
* implies a fatalistic attitude toward health and disease.
* is the view that the phenotype is precoded in or determined by the genotype.

Technological determinism
* comes in different forms.
* is the reification of technology
  - theory that technology is an autonomous force that changes society

### belief | doctrine | philosophical theory:

Empiricism
* denies the possibility of spontaneous ideas or a priori thought.
* elevates the scientific method of investigation in order to attain knowledge.
* falters before death.
* gives facts without religion.
* implies going to the best source for material.
* is an ignorant and arrogant philosophy
  - investigations
  - merely organised observation
  - one of the founding principles of the modern scientific approach
  - restricted to particular things
* is the philosophical doctrine traditionally opposed to nativism
  - practice of relying upon observation and experiment
  - scientific method and utilizes the senses
  - use of observation of the physical universe as a way to know about it
  - very much like phenomenalism
* plays a fundamental role in church legitimacy.
* specifically repudiates propositions in the realm of metaphysics.