Concept

Indeterminism

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concept that events (certain events, or events of certain types) are not caused, or not caused deterministically (cf. causality) by prior events

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But the indeterminism is not absolute. Not every {230} 'man' fits every 'hour.' Some incompatibilities there are. A given genius may come either too early or too late. Peter the Hermit would now be sent to a lunatic asylum.
William James, The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
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On the indeterminist hypothesis, on the contrary, it would have a meaning, even if it were taken in an absolute sense; it would appear as a limitation imposed upon freedom. But this word reminds me that I am digressing and am on the point of leaving the domain of mathematics and physics.
Henri Poincaré, The Foundations of Science
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The prior causal conditions, altho there could be no knowing of any kind, true or false, without them, are but preliminary to the question of what makes the ideas true or false when once their tendencies have been obeyed. The tendencies must exist in some shape anyhow, but their fruits are truth, falsity, or irrelevancy, according to what they concretely turn out to be.
William James, The Meaning of Truth
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