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.
He maintains that incompatibilism is false because, even if indeterminism is true, incompatibilists have not provided, and cannot provide, an adequate account of origination.
A number of event-causal accounts of free will have been created, referenced here as deliberative indeterminism, centred accounts, and efforts of will theory.
Even with physical indeterminism an event could still be fated externally (see for instance theological determinism ).
Epicurus was first to assert human freedom as coming from a fundamental indeterminism in the motion of atoms.
Even with physical indeterminism an event could still be destined to occur.