Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not just in how we act

Re:Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not ju... by air7 on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:19AM (#20962900)

Deterministic in the sense of determining things to their "value" instead of leaving them as a continuous probability.

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Re:Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not ju... by seafoam on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:27AM (#20962975)

Discrete is the word for that.

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Re:Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not ju... by anaphor on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:53PM (#20966421)

It's also deterministic in the sense that people who think this way are assuming that the universe works deterministically, so they can know that A always leads to B, etc

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Re:Deterministic thinking: a problem in how we think, not ju... by compressedgas on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:00PM (#20963277)

There is also determinant. Which might have been a better choice.

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