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- noun Plural form of
determinist .
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Examples
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The problem for determinists is the same for the atheists.
Testing the Freedom to Choose, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In a down economy, Barack Obama is going to position his GOP critics as economic determinists.
Obama's Maddening, Winning Speech Daniel Henninger 2012
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Plus, it keeps modern-day racial determinists like Sailer in work.
Matthew Yglesias » Meeting Obama’s College Attainment Goals 2009
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This same alleged debate -- curmudgeons shooting at phantom technological determinists and triumphalists -- goes on to this day over Gutenberg, too.
Jeff Jarvis: Gutenberg of Arabia Jeff Jarvis 2011
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In the aftermath, realists and determinists seemed vanquished; to be called either one back then was practically an insult.
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In the aftermath, realists and determinists seemed vanquished; to be called either one back then was practically an insult.
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Which biological determinists and essentialists of all stripes do NOT want to admit is the case -- especially all those among us obsessed with "masculinity" as if it has authentic biological reality, instead of being a pathological cultural construct in the midst of epic fail.
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In the aftermath, realists and determinists seemed vanquished; to be called either one back then was practically an insult.
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Which biological determinists and essentialists of all stripes do NOT want to admit is the case -- especially all those among us obsessed with "masculinity" as if it has authentic biological reality, instead of being a pathological cultural construct in the midst of epic fail.
Archive 2010-03-01 2010
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Instead, historians who discuss environmental influences on history at all are often caricatured by critics as "environmental determinists," supposedly meaning someone who believes that the environment strictly determines human history and that human choices count for nothing.
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