hard determinist

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hard determinist (comparative more hard determinist, superlative most hard determinist)

  1. (philosophy) Of, pertaining to or supporting hard determinism, the belief that free will and determinism are incompatible ideas.
    Synonym: incompatibilist
    • 2009, Daniel Cohen, Nick Trakakis, editors, Essays on Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 48:
      Pereboom goes on to add that, in a hard determinist world, an agent's moral worth would be determined by, for example, the degree to which they regulate their behaviour in accordance with moral reasons, []

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hard determinist (plural hard determinists)

  1. (philosophy) A supporter of hard determinism.
    • 2009, Susan Pockett, William P. Banks, Shaun Gallagher, editors, Does Consciousness Cause Behavior?, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 128:
      While the hard determinist understands an interrelated set of normative terms on the basis of self-formation, the compatibilist understands a homophonic set on the basis of a meaning of control without self-formation.