Philosophy has adhered for a long time to consider what and how to know in the world. The question "what is the world?" and the question "what is knowledge?" have been intricately intertwined: people have tried to know the world and the changes in it. What and how to know in the world essentially depend on the way how the things are determined in it. This kind of investigation has been done through the repetitive intricate interactions among activities represented by the predicates, 'determine', 'occur' and  know'. In order to determine something, we need the tools of determining it. They are geometry, logic, and language. The unknown riddles of the world are solved as the determined world by determining the world which is supposed to be determined. This is the claim of determinism. Logical and geometrical determinisms are the determining determinisms, while a block universe model, Zeno's paradox, and the usual physical determinism are the determined determinisms. Causal and mechanical determinisms usually imply logical and linguistic determinisms with several definitions. And so we are not aware of such a basic determinism when we think of problems in classical mechanics.  Determine' and  being determined' are mutually penetrated. Determining instruments and their operations inform us the determined changes and the determined knowledge is again used to determine the next thing and again further. This kind of repetition has been done gradually when we increased our knowledge. And in this way we are able to think of determinism more clearly than before.

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