单词	indeterminism
释义	indeterminism /ɪndɪˈtəːmɪnɪz(ə)m / noun [mass noun] 1 Philosophy The doctrine that not all events are wholly determined by antecedent causes.If it turns out that both determinism and indeterminism have these three intellectual virtues, can we come to a judgement about which one has the crowning virtue?... For any freedom not compatible with determinism would require indeterminism; and what is undetermined would happen by luck and could not be a free and responsible action. The second main reply to that argument is that it involves an incoherent mix of determinism and indeterminism. 2The state of being uncertain or undecided.The indeterminism made it uncertain whether she would go back to help or press onward.... Indeed, introducing indeterminism adds little in the way of worthwhile possibilities, opportunities, or competences to a universe. I thought it may be indeterminism, but no such luck. Derivatives indeterminist /ˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnɪst / noun ... Like William James, Popper was an indeterminist who saw history as a series of unforeseeable events. If actions originate from noncausal events as indeterminists claim, then they are chaotic and untamed. Compatibilists could in principle be indeterminists but in fact are nearly always determinists. indeterministic /ɪndɪtəːmɪˈnɪstɪk/ adjective ... It's not as if they have indeterministic physics in their brains whereas the rest of us have deterministic physics. Many philosophers find the idea of indeterministic causation counterintuitive. She might deny, that every event is caused, thereby claiming that the universe is causally indeterministic.
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