Open AccessCommentary: Coda—a Socratic dialogue: Plato
Author(s) -
Lucien Karhausen
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
international journal of epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406
H-Index - 208
eISSN - 1464-3685
pISSN - 0300-5771
DOI - 10.1093/ije/30.4.710
Subject(s) - coda , socratic method , philosophy , medicine , epistemology , aesthetics
Socrates Very well my dear fellow. So in the present case, it is necessary to investigate what we mean by determinism. Sufficient conditions are embodying the deterministic assumption that everything that occurs is fully necessitated by antecedent facts or events: determinism is an all-or-nothing affair; it assumes a quantitative complete causal bonding and supposes exceptionless and universal laws of nature.
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