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predetermination
n (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)
n a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something
he entered the argument with a predetermination to prove me wrong
n the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place
That might have prevented his dismissing as trivial every moving force in the expanding human makeup outside of genetic predetermination and breeding practices.
If that sounds like a prescription for predetermination, even fatalism, Wright points out that what is natural is not necessarily unchangeable.
That their votes are cast together is the result of chance, not predetermination.