# Determinism

- Id: `determinism`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/determinism/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `8244ac8b8401211e08f58baac9d72dd0491302338ae8356d7da6c1f2434e3b93`

## Summary

Determinism holds that events follow from causes or laws that fix their sequence.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 141 passages across 7 works, including The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s Letters, The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Existentialism Is a Humanism. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:einstein.born_letters:section-0119",
    "passage:schopenhauer.world:supplement-25",
    "passage:schopenhauer.freedom_of_will:chapter-05.segment-02"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "déterminisme",
    "determinism",
    "deterministic"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 7,
    "passages": 141,
    "thinkers": 4,
    "traditions": 3
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "science",
        "name": "Science and scientific thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/science-and-scientific-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "psychology",
        "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/psychology-and-psychoanalysis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "modern-philosophy",
        "name": "Modern and contemporary philosophy",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/modern-and-contemporary-philosophy/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "einstein.born_letters",
        "title": "The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s Letters",
        "author": "Albert Einstein",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/einstein/born-letters/"
    },
    {
        "id": "freud.psychopathologie_alltagslebens",
        "title": "The Psychopathology of Everyday Life",
        "author": "Sigmund Freud",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/freud/psychopathologie-alltagslebens/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sartre.existentialisme_humanisme",
        "title": "Existentialism Is a Humanism",
        "author": "Jean-Paul Sartre",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jean-paul-sartre/existentialisme-humanisme/"
    },
    {
        "id": "jung.psychologische_typen",
        "title": "Psychological Types",
        "author": "Carl Gustav Jung",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/jung/psychologische-typen/"
    }
]
```