inevitabilist

English

Adjective

inevitabilist (comparative more inevitabilist, superlative most inevitabilist)

  1. Characteristic of inevitabilism.
    Coordinate term: contingentist
    • 2016, Lena Soler, Emiliano Trizio, Andrew Pickering, editors, Science as It Could Have Been: Discussing the Contingency/Inevitability Problem‎, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN:
      What are the typical inevitabilist replies? They correspond to relatively familiar arguments in the philosophy of science for, at this point in our inquiry, the contingentist/inevitabilist debate intersects with more traditional debates about the underdeterminination of theory by empirical facts […]
    • 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 11, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
      The Trojan horse of computer meditation—devices, apps, connection—enters the scene in a relentless deluge of inevitabilist rhetoric, successfully distracting us from the highly intentional and historically contingent surveillance capitalism within.
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