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n. 1 (context ethics religion uncountable English) 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. 2 (context countable English) (rfdef: English)
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Indeterminism is the concept that events (certain events, or events of certain types) are not caused, or not caused deterministically (cf. causality) by prior events. It is the opposite of determinism and related to chance. It is highly relevant to the philosophical problem of free will, particularly in the form of metaphysical libertarianism.
In science, most specifically quantum theory in physics, indeterminism is the belief that no event is certain and the entire outcome of anything is a probability. The Heisenberg uncertainty relations and the " Born rule", proposed by Max Born, are often starting points in support of the indeterministic nature of the universe. Indeterminism is also asserted by Sir Arthur Eddington, and Murray Gell-Mann. Indeterminism has been promoted by the French biologist Jacques Monod's essay " Chance and Necessity". The physicist-chemist Ilya Prigogine argued for indeterminism in complex systems.
Usage examples of "indeterminism".
This field organizes and patterns the indeterminism that would be shown by the lower-level holons in isolation.