Associations to the word «Predetermination»
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Wiktionary
PREDETERMINATION, noun. The act of determining beforehand.
PREDETERMINATION, noun. Something that has been decided in advance.
Dictionary definition
PREDETERMINATION, noun. (theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind).
PREDETERMINATION, noun. A mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something; "he entered the argument with a predetermination to prove me wrong".
PREDETERMINATION, noun. The act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place.
Wise words
Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at
least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are
nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to
build something with them; they do not win their true
meaning until one knows how to apply them.