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predeterminism
noun
The belief that all events that occur have already been determined.
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Researchers coined the term "biological predeterminism" to underscore how the cellular makeup of a given cancer — rather than when it was found — was most important in determining survival.
Self-knowledge, predeterminism and willed blindness become the stuff of intense conversation during and between rehearsals of Sophocles' masterwork.
This was an epigenetic view that allowed some minimal predeterminism.
The nowadays of the 21st century may take us back to some of the understanding and insights of the early 20th, a time when a balance of epigenesis and preformation seemed likely, a time for a bit of predeterminism and a bit of cellular free will.
Therefore, yes, genetics brings a sort of new preformation or more accurately predeterminism.
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