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determinacy  

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  • Determinacy belongs to a set of interrelated concepts concerned with causation and causal relations in the natural or social worlds—a set that includes determination, contingency, dominance, overdetermination, determinability, and undecidability. For the social world, determinacy also raises questions about event and structural causation, the agency-structure problem, and issues of free will. [Source: Encyclopedia of Power; Determinacy]

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