Ch 6 Flashcards
Those circumstances, state of affairs or events that regularly proceed, and could be said to cause an event
Antecedent conditions
That which bring something about
Cause
The thesis, both determinism and free action can’t be true determinism does not rule out for reaction in the possibility of reaction does not require that determinism be false
Compatibilism
Being forced to do something
Compulsion
The view that every event in the universe is dependent on other event, which are its causes
Determinism
The thesis at certain events are going to happen, inevitably, regardless of what efforts we take to prevent them
Fatalism
Among philosophers, a Someone antiquated expression that means that a person is capable of making decisions that are not determined by antecedent conditions
Free will
The idea that a human decision or action is a persons own responsibility.
Freedom
And important principle of recent physics that demonstrates that we cannot know both position in the momentum of certain subatomic particles, because in our own attempts to no one, we make it impossible to know the
Heisenberg uncertainty principle
The thesis that at least some events in the universe are not determined or not caused by antecedent conditions it may not be predictable
 Indeterminism
The thesis usually in a theological context that every event is destined to happen as in fatalism whatever efforts we make to per minute, the usual version is that God knows, and perhaps causes all things happen, and therefore everything must happen precisely as he knows it to happen
 Predestination
To say that some event will happen before it happens
Prediction
Answerability or accountability, for some actor event presumed to be within a persons control
Responsibility
To say, on the basis of certain present evidence, that what must have happened in the past
Retrodict
A thesis determinism, but claims that certain types of causes, namely, a persons character, still allow us to call his or her actions free
Soft determinism
