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{{short description|Predetermined course of events}} {{redirect|Fate|other uses|Fate (disambiguation)|and|Destiny (disambiguation)}} {{original research|date=July 2023}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2020}} {{Wiktionary|destiny|fate}} '''Destiny''', sometimes also called '''fate''' ({{etymology|la|{{Wikt-lang|la|fatum}}|decree, prediction, destiny, fate}}), is a predetermined course of events.<ref name=Raphals>{{cite book|author1=Lisa Raphals|title=Philosophy East and West|date=4 October 2003|publisher=University of Hawai'i Press|pages=537β574|edition=Volume 53}}</ref><ref>Compare ''[[determinism]]'', the [[philosophy|philosophical]] [[proposition]] that every event, including human cognition and behavior, is [[causality|causally]] determined by an unbroken [[chain of prior occurrences]].</ref> It may be conceived as a [[predeterminism|predetermined]] future, whether in general or of an individual.
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