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The philosophical belief that every event or action is the inevitable result of preceding events and actions is called
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Determinism
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Determinism is the philosophical belief that every event, including human actions, is inevitably determined by preceding events and causes, following causal laws. It's the view that the future is fixed by the past. Prediction (B) is different from determinism, Newton's Third Law (C) is a physical law about action-reaction, not determinism.