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in·de·ter·min·ism

(ĭn′dĭ-tûr′mə-nĭz′əm)
n.
1. Unpredictability.
2. Philosophy The doctrine that there are events, particularly free human actions or decisions, that have no cause or are not caused deterministically.

in′de·ter′min·ist n.
in′de·ter′min·is′tic adj.
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indeterminism

(ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪˌnɪzəm)
n
(Philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that behaviour is not entirely determined by motives
ˌindeˈterminist n, adj
ˌindeˌterminˈistic adj
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in•de•ter•min•ism

(ˌɪn dɪˈtɜr məˌnɪz əm)

n.
a theory that human actions, though influenced by preexisting conditions, are not entirely governed by them.
[1870–75]
in`de•ter′min•ist, n., adj.
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indeterminism

the quality of not being clearly established or fixed. — indeterminist, n.indeterministic, adj.
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According to indeterminist libertarianism, free will, moral responsibility, and social activism are incompatible with determinism pertaining to human behavior.
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Chrysippus' account of human action in Aulus Gellius, Noctes atticae, 7.2.6-13 [LS 62D] and Alexander's and Nemesius' criticisms (fully justified from an indeterminist standpoint) in Alexander, De fato, 196.22-197.2 and Nemesius, De natura hominis, 34.46-9.
Rychlik knew about Cage and was aware of the historical connections that link his indeterminist and mutually combinable compositions to the compositional principles of the Renaissance, as he put it in his study Proky novych skladebnych technik v hudbe minulost, v hudbe exoticke a lidove, (Elements of new compositional techniques in the music of the past, in exotic and folk music), which was published posthumously, within the volume Nove cesty hudby (New Ways of Music, SITV, Prague 1964).
The Sorites paradoxes are associated with Eubulides of Miletus (fourth century B.C.) and they say that there is not a clear frontier between visible and invisible matter, determinist and indeterminist principle, stable and unstable matter, long time living and short time living matter.
This began to steer the helm towards an indeterminist conception, heightened by the formation of careers in psychology stressing a psychoanalytic perspective, which lasts to this day (Papini, 1978).
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