Example sentences for: determinism

How can you use “determinism” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Idealists emphasize free will; realists emphasize determinism.

  • But genetic determinism is largely irrelevant to the cloning issue.

  • The phenomenon of names matching professions [EPISTOLAE, XXII,4] has been the subject of much discussion this year in the British magazine New Scientist , where it is termed nominative determinism .

  • In Gattaca , as well as in lots of other recent films and books, artists have dreamed up complex nightmares of genetic determinism, where characters are mere puppets of their DNA scripts or of the scientists and profit seekers who manipulate them.

  • Allowing for the possibility of increasing returns tends to rob economic models of two properties that economists cherish: simplicity and determinism.


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