indeterministn.

1880 W. L. Courtney Epicurus in Hellenica (1880) 257 Epicurus was not..an Indeterminist: he was an opponent of Fatalism, not of Determinism.

a1882 T. H. Green Proleg. Ethics (1883) ii. i. 93 The question commonly debated..between ‘determinists’ and ‘indeterminists’;..whether there is, or is not, a possibility of unmotived willing.

1902 W. R. B. Gibson in H. Sturt Personal Idealism iii. 160 The Indeterminist, like the Britisher, is king of his own castle, and woe to the combatant who fights the battles of Freedom within that..enclosure. Of such a kind is the indeterministic challenge of Professor James.

1903 A. E. Taylor Elem. Metaphysics iv. iv. 376 The essence of the indeterminist position is the denial of the principle affirmed alike by the doctrine of self-determination and, in an unintelligent travesty, by the determinist theory that conduct results from the reaction of ‘character’ upon circumstances.

1907 W. James Pragmatism 117 The chaplet of my days tumbles into a cast of disconnected beads as soon as the thread of inner necessity is drawn out by the preposterous indeterminist doctrine.

1925 A. G. Hogg Redemption from this World 243 Bushnell, accepting a very indeterministic type of libertarianism, postulates an unresolved plurality of ‘powers’ or uncaused causes.

1936 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 Jan. 38/4 A very lucid exposition of the indeterminist philosophy.

1940 Mind 49 465 An erroneous belief that acceptance of the new ‘indeterministic’ view of physical law would make it less likely that the sun would rise tomorrow.

1969 Adv. Hydroscience V. 102 Indeterministic models would exclude those possessing deterministic and probabilistic properties.