Who would most likely be a strict determinist?
a. a biologist who prefers to explain her scientific procedures in terms of reasons and purposes rather than causes.
b. a person who insists that she can predict the winner of the next ballgame by the position of the stars and planets.
c. an existentialist.
d. a judge who has a reputation for sentencing criminals to the fullest extent of the law because she believes people should be blamed for the evil they do.
ANS: B
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