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physical determinism

the type of determinism presumed to operate among physical objects in the natural world. In psychology, physical determinism is the assumption that psychological events and behaviors have physical causes and can be described in terms of models and theories borrowed from the physical sciences. See hard determinism; psychological determinism. See also statistical determinism.

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equal-and-unequal-cases method

equal-and-unequal-cases method

see method of equal and unequal cases.