1. Philosophy. Taking the psoition that all events are the results of an antecedent cause or other force. See causality. 2. Psychology. Taking the position that behaviour results in causal antecedents.
DETERMINISM: "Determinism looks at how past actions can effect our current actions and behaviours."
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