Antedating of "Determinism"

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Stephen Goranson wrote:

> Though I would hesitate to say that one oddly-translated antedating makes the
> other's meaning moot (I'm interested in antedating, but also in context,
> trajectory, and tradents)

Point well taken.  I did not mean to imply that only "first use" citations
are of interest.

Fred Shapiro


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