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Indeterminacy and Indeterminism: with a Suggestion for Interpreting the Former

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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Indeterminism is opposed to the philosophic theory of determinism, of which Sir Arthur Eddington, in a recent pronouncement on this subject, 1 quotes three definitions. On the ground that it expresses unequivocally what we all feel to be the gist of the theory, he gives preference to the third, from Omar Khayyám:—

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1932

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page 394 note 1 The Decline of Determinism, a Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association, delivered on January 4, 1932; printed as a supplement to Nature, February 13, 1932.