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The author tries to formulate what a determinist believes to be true. The formulation is based on some concepts defined in a systems-theoretical manner, mainly on the concept of an experiment over the sets A m (a set of m-tuples of ‘input values’) and B n (a set of n-tuples of ‘output values’) in the time interval (t 1, ..., t k ) (symbolically E[t 1,..., t k , A m , B n]), on the concept of a behavior of the system S m,n (=(A m , B n)) on the basis of the experiment E[t 1, ..., t k , A m , B n] and, indeed, on the concept of deterministic behavior .... The resulting formulation of the deterministic hypothesis shows that this hypothesis expresses a belief that we always “could find” some “hidden parameters”.
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Materna, P. A formulation of the determinism hypothesis. Theor Decis 6, 39–42 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00139819
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