First, for those of us who in our youth flirted with the somewhat determinist branch of Marxist-oriented leftwing politics, the Northern Ireland peace process is a classic example of how individual people, in a certain place at a certain moment in time, can make the difference.
When Zola began planning the series, he had a distinctly determinist view of character and plotting.
But Wolff was a blunt technological determinist.
The dominant mood of the Koran is determinist.
Mr Rupel is something of an economic determinist on this front.
Mr Cameron is a different sort of Tory: less of an economic determinist than Mrs Thatcher, more socially liberal, more in the party's "one nation" tradition.
It also intensified opposition to his ideas, and he was angrily accused of holding a strictly determinist and materialist view of man not altogether unfairly, even though he claimed to reject materialism and argued that moral responsibility was compatible with determinism as he conceived it.
The book dismisses tabula rasa notions of human mental development, citing a large body of research indicative of the determinist role played by genes.
That in turn invites speculations of a psychologically determinist sort; one has to ask, without hope of an answer, whether the Greeks were naturally particularist.
He is thus a determinist, although scholars have held the view that he might leave room for chance, if not for freedom of will.
It derives from the same determinist philosophy as Naturalism and has much in common aesthetically with Impressionism in that it focuses on subjectively perceived moments of physical experience, held to have no significance beyond themselves.
