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Determinism W (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

how does determinism explain development? i feel like it should be viewed, as many things, as a spectrum and not something binary. For me development is the anti-thesis to determinism.

edit: while most things are already determined by our existing material conditions, i think we definitely have a bit of leeway, otherwise we wouldn't be at this stage of development.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Contradictions are not precluded from determinism. All things are composed of unities of opposites constantly in change. Just because a mechanical materialist may not expect what did happen doesn’t invalidate determinism. The world is absurd, but that doesn’t bring wills into the question.