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Meaning of hard determinism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A view on free will which holds that determinism is true, that it is incompatible with free will, and therefore that free will does not exist.

uncountable

Examples

“Moreover, suggestions that compatibilists can refute hard determinism on non-semantic grounds are misguided, building more into hard determinism than an adherent of this view needs to accept. […] Hard determinism merely claims that our actions are brought about by genetics and environment, and that this rules out control.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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