(Note also that Peirce used the word "determine" in the sense not of strict determinism, but of effectiveness that can vary like an influence.)

From his Calvinist upbringing, Combe inherited a belief in strict determinism, combined with a strong emphasis on individual moral responsibility.

Aristotle believed that strict determinism must be rejected because it destroys the natural basis for distinguishing between voluntary and involuntary actions.

For Epicurus, the occasional interventions of arbitrary gods would be preferable to strict determinism.

There is no strict determinism through one's dispositions.

And von Mises was also supportive of the notion of the impossibility of strict determinism in physics.

Some critics have claimed that meant that Marx enforced a strict social determinism which destroyed the possibility of free will.

He simply wanted chance to provide alternative possibilities for actions and a break in the causal chain of strict determinism.

Suggestions have been made that hard determinism need not maintain strict determinism, where something near to, like that informally known as adequate determinism, is perhaps more relevant.

The idea that free will can be reconciled with the strictest determinism is now very widely accepted.