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Logical determinism, causal determinism, and free will
In chapter one I argue that determinism is not fatalistic. This implies that free will is compatible with determinism.
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Pseudo-determinism
… for the problem. Next, we investigate pseudo-determinism in the context of streaming algorithms. We show both lower and upper bounds for some classic streaming problems. Most notably, we show that the problem of approximate counting in a stream (for which the well known algorithm of Morris …
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Determinism and Human Action
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From determinism to stochasticity
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A refutation of determinism.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Humanities. Thesis. 1965. B.S.
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Environmental Determinism: Broken Paradigm or Viable Perspective?.
… was to examine the issue of environmental determinism. It was an ideology that was prevalent throughout the early decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> century that held that the natural environment was responsible for virtually all human development. It helped bring the study of geography into …
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Randomness versus non-determinism in distributed computing
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1995.
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The Mirrors of Naturalism: Stephen Crane's Pragmatic Determinism
… by arguing that the emergent theories of determinism and pragmatism were antithetical to, and yet dependent upon, one another. On the one hand, Stephen Crane’s fiction reveals determinism’s heavy weight upon the naturalist genre (the sense that humans cannot affect their worlds), yet …
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Introducing Non-Determinism to the Parallel C Compiler
<p>The Planguages project is the birthplace of the Planguage programming<br />approach, which is designed to alleviate the task of writing parallel<br />programs and harness massively parallel computers and networks of workstations.</p> <p><br />Planguage has two existing translators, Parallel C …
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Environmental determinism and the existence of citizen oversight of the police
… discussed within the context of environmental determinism, and implications for future study are outlined.
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Action and determinism: a study of the problem of free will
… the arguments offered in favor of <em>determinism</em>. They claim to prove that occurrences and things in the world are so constrained by non-human factors that the possibility of genuine human action is excluded, despite whatever appearances there might be to the contrary. Hence, they …
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Environmental determinism and forest structure and composition: a naturally replicated experiment
Ecological theory states that forest succession is largely environmentally determined. Many investigators have suggested, however, that stochastic processes can frequently alter successional pathways. In particular, the colonization phase is thought to be very stochastic. This study utilizes a …
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Constrained Choice and Contingency: Military and Economic Competition as the Mechanism for Technological Determinism
… social constructivism and na?ve technological determinism. Scholars in the first group claim that there is unlimited interpretive flexibility, agency and contingency. Scholars from the latter group naively attribute agency to technology, failing to acknowledge the absence of a micro-theory for …
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The status of casuality and determinism in a philosophical interpretation of quantum state description
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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"It is written": representations of determinism in contemporary popular science writing and contemporary British fiction
… Specifically, I consider the representations of determinism in recent works by a number of writers from both genres, concentrating on the literary techniques employed by popular science writers, and the scientific concepts incorporated by contemporary authors. I argue that there is a tendency in …
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Political metaphysics : God, determinism, and constructivism in the thought of Thomas Hobbes and Gerrard Winstanley
… obligation in the form of divinely-ordained determinism. These deterministic elements are not, however, incompatible with his emphasis on the role of human construction evidenced in his notion of the artificial sovereign and body politic. This is because, I demonstrate, Hobbes's deistic …
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Social conditioning versus biological determinism : a study of the women characters in the 'minor' novels of Thomas Hardy
The popular and critical consensus with regard to the novels of Thomas Hardy is that they exemplify a fatalistic or pessimistic philosophy consequent upon their author's early contact with evolutionary thought. One of the functions of this thesis is to demonstrate that, whilst accepting that the …
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An Investigation of Determinism and Chaotic Behavior in Flight Performance Data: A Chaos Theory and Nonlinear Time Series Analysis Approach
… behavior. Results also showed a consistent low determinism value in all the data examined which is the defining characteristic of chaotic behavior. It was also found that the data originated from non-stationary process. The Maximal Lyapunov Exponent (MLE) value which indicate chaotic behavior …
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