believing that everything that happens must happen as it does and could not have happened any other way, or relating to this belief決定論(者)的(認爲一切事物具有不以人的意志爲轉移的必然性)
It would be overly deterministic to say that if the party did change its leader, the new one would continue to make the same mistakes.有人認爲如果該政黨改換領袖,新的領導人將會繼續重複同樣的錯誤,這樣的看法實在是決定論者的論調。