Past events cause current events {determinism}| {necessitarianism}. Determinism relates to fatalism, logical determinism, and predestination.
strong
Past events logically determine all events, and so events are necessary. There is no purpose. Freedom is only feeling, because people cannot detect action causes {strong determinism}.
weak
Laws, which act through cause and effect, govern all events, but events are not logically necessary {weak determinism}.
effects
If human actions are deterministic, there is no free will, hope, feelings, moral responsibility, right or wrong, attitudes, real knowledge, choice, or use for deliberation.
problems
Universe is not mechanistic or determined, because fundamental-particle behavior has randomness.
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