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By ‘metaphysical determinism’ I mean the thesis that nature follows an invariant pattern of regularity and that every event which happens is an instance of such regularity; i. e., that each event is related to other, antecedent events (and perhaps simultaneous ones as well), in such away that they lead to just that particular event, rather than some alternative one, as a segment of the continuing pattern of regularity in nature.
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Tapscott, B.L. (1979). Deterministic Predictions. In: Gustafson, D.F., Tapscott, B.L. (eds) Body, Mind, and Method. Synthese Library, vol 138. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9479-9_12
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