Editing Determinism (section)

==== Determinism and prediction ====
Other "deterministic"{{Opinion|date=December 2022}} theories actually seek only to highlight the importance of a particular factor in predicting the future. These theories often use the factor as a sort of guide or constraint on the future. They need not suppose that complete knowledge of that one factor would allow the making of perfect predictions.

* [[Psychological determinism]] can mean that humans must act according to reason, but it can also be synonymous with some sort of [[psychological egoism]]. The latter is the view that humans will always act according to their perceived best interest.
* [[Linguistic determinism]] proposes that language determines (or at least limits) the things that humans can think and say and thus know. The [[Linguistic relativity|Sapir–Whorf hypothesis]] argues that individuals experience the world based on the grammatical structures they habitually use.
* [[Economic determinism]] attributes primacy to economic structure over politics in the development of human history. It is associated with the [[dialectical materialism]] of [[Karl Marx]].
* [[Technological determinism]] is the theory that a society's technology drives the development of its social structure and cultural values.