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Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions.
Destiny, sometimes also called fate (from Latin fatum 'decree, prediction, destiny, fate'), is a predetermined course of events. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual.
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The term is sometimes used without any negative connotation. For example, many Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball teams have a kangaroo court to punish players for errors on the field, being late for a game or practice, not wearing proper attire to road games, or having a messy locker in the clubhouse.
[63] [65] The predetermined fate of all sentient beings and the impossibility to achieve liberation (mokṣa) from the eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth (saṃsāra) was the major distinctive philosophical and metaphysical doctrine of this heterodox school of Indian philosophy, [63] [64] [65] annoverated among the other Śramaṇa ...
A measurement may be said to be repeatable when this variation is smaller than a predetermined acceptance criterion. Test–retest variability is practically used, for example, in medical monitoring of conditions. In these situations, there is often a predetermined "critical difference", and for differences in monitored values that are smaller ...
In other words, if you have $100,000 invested in an annuity and want to pull out $10,000 for any reason, you could pay close to $1,000 extra just because of any fine print surrender charges.
Indeterminism is the idea that events (or certain events, or events of certain types) are not caused, or are not caused deterministically.. It is the opposite of determinism and related to chance.