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indeterminism

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(ethics, religion, uncountable) The doctrine that all human actions are not so much determined by the preceding events, conditions, causes or karma as by deliberate choice or free will.

(countable, physics) A case in which the uncertainty principle applies; a case in which certain pairs of physical properties such as the position and momentum of a particle cannot be known simultaneously.

(countable) Any situation in which the outcome cannot be completely predicted in advance.

(countable, computing) A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.

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For Popper, metaphysical and historical indeterminism go hand in hand. Source: Internet

He maintains that incompatibilism is false because, even if indeterminism is true, incompatibilists have not provided, and cannot provide, an adequate account of origination. Source: Internet

A number of event-causal accounts of free will have been created, referenced here as deliberative indeterminism, centred accounts, and efforts of will theory. Source: Internet

Even with physical indeterminism an event could still be fated externally (see for instance theological determinism ). Source: Internet

Epicurus was first to assert human freedom as coming from a fundamental indeterminism in the motion of atoms. Source: Internet

Even with physical indeterminism an event could still be destined to occur. Source: Internet

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