| For all the manipulation of history which occurs in The Plot to Save Socrates, the characters all have a strong sense of predeterminism. |
| The pendulum has now swung back following years of predeterminism and surgical nihilism. |
| Therefore, yes, genetics brings a sort of new preformation or more accurately predeterminism. |
| Self-knowledge, predeterminism and willed blindness become the stuff of intense conversation during and between rehearsals of Sophocles' masterwork. |
| Although paleontology plays a large role in the novel, Swanwick seems to be more concerned with cause-and-effect, paradoxes, and predeterminism. |
| This was an epigenetic view that allowed some minimal predeterminism. |
