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^[1], 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.