- The doctrine that all events are predetermined by fate and are therefore unalterable.
- Acceptance of the belief that all events are predetermined and inevitable.
fatalistic fa'tal·is'tic adj.
fatalistically fa'tal·is'ti·cal·ly adv.
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The doctrine that what will be will be, or that human action has no influence on events. ‘Either a bullet has my number on it or it does not; if it does, then there is no point taking precautions for it will kill me anyhow; if it does not then there is no point taking precautions for it is not going to kill me; hence either way there is no point taking precautions.’ The dilemma ignores the highly likely possibility that whether the bullet has your number on it depends on whether you take precautions. Fatalism is wrongly confused with determinism, which by itself carries no implications that human action is ineffectual.
She was not convinced that fatalism was a belief that she could embrace.
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Fatalism is commonly referred to as "the doctrine that all events are subject to fate or inevitable predetermination."
More precisely, it can refer to at least one of three interrelated ideas:-
Fatalism: A doctrine that events are fixed in advance for all time in such a manner that human beings are powerless to change them; also: a belief in or attitude determined by this doctrine (taken from the "Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary").
The level of equivalence between determinism, fatalism and predestination is open to dispute. Determinism and predestination differ on the status of free will. Some fatalists deny that fatalism as a fact implies defeatism as an attitude, or put a positive interpretation on the acceptance of one's fate (amor fati).
Determinism should not be mistaken for fatalism.[3][4] Although determinists accept that the future is, in some sense, set, they accept that human actions affect what happens - even though those human actions are themselves determined; if they had been different, the future would also be different.
In other words, determinists think the future is fixed because of causality, whereas (predestinarian) fatalists think it is fixed in spite of causality. Determinists think that if the past had been different, the present would have been different (although for them the idea that anything could have been different is purely hypothetical and not a real possibility). Fatalists think that even if you could change the present or the past, the future would still be the same. Human actions are for determinists merely a special case of the dependence of the future on the present and past, and have no special properties beyond that.
One ancient argument for fatalism, called the idle argument,[5] went like this:
Arguments like the above are usually rejected even by causal determinists, who may say that it may be determined that only a doctor can cure you. There are other examples that show clearly that human deliberation makes a big difference - a chess player who deliberates should usually be able to defeat one of equal strength who is only allowed one second per move.
Arguments for fatalism, although rarely accepted, do have a bearing on discussions about the nature of truth. The logical argument for fatalism[6] says that, if there will be a sea battle tomorrow, and someone says "there will be a sea battle tomorrow" then that sentence is true, even before the sea battle occurs. But given that the sentence is true, the sea battle could not fail to take place. This argument can be rejected by denying that predictions about the future have to be true or false when they are made - ie, rejecting bivalence for sentences about the future, though this is controversial.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - fatalisme, skæbnetro
Nederlands (Dutch)
fatalisme (idee dat alles voorbestemd is)
Français (French)
n. - fatalisme
Deutsch (German)
n. - Fatalismus, Glaube an Vorherbestimmung
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μοιρολατρία, φαταλισμός
Português (Portuguese)
n. - fatalismo (m)
Español (Spanish)
n. - fatalismo
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - fatalism
中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
宿命论
中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 宿命論
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 운명론 , 숙명론, 운명관
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) القدريه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - פטאליזם, פטאליות, אמונה בכך שהכל נקבע מראש ולכן בלתי-נמנע, אי-אמונה ביכולת לשנות את מהלך הדברים
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