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What is an indeterminism?

What is an indeterminism? Here are some definitions.

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  1. (religion) 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. (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.
  3. (countable) Any situation in which the outcome cannot be completely predicted in advance.
  4. (computing) A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.
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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.

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