The new world is full of uncertainty, indeterminism and states that our knowledge is limited. |
Their indeterminism is indeed the necessary and logical accompaniment of their anti-intellectualism. |
The indeterminism cannot last forever. At least so Niels Bohr would have said. |
The second main reply to that argument is that it involves an incoherent mix of determinism and indeterminism. |
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? |
This gap is to be filled, according to the pessimist, with the general metaphysical thesis of indeterminism. |