determinism

n. A philosophical point of view which supposes that there are specific causes to all events such that if all variables could be specified, both the past and the future could be known. This is the position of logical positivism in science, which was the dominant point of view in 16th- through 19th-century science but was supplanted by relativistic views in the early 20th century. In psychology, this point of view included psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and some physiological approaches.