• 小莱卡@lemmygrad.ml
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • QueerCommie@lemmygrad.ml
      hexagon
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      9 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.