Chance and Necessity

[Mark Kohut]

Jill,
   
  p. 862. Law of Deterministic Insufficiency
Perhaps referring to C.S. Pierce's notion of Chance existing as an irreducible element in the universe?. See Chums of.

"grladams at teleport.com" <grladams at teleport.com> wrote:
  When you said you posted... on the p wiki, I'm wondering if you mean

http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=C and if I
should be looking under C for chance? 
Can't find what it is you said you posted...
Can you send a URL
Thanks!!!!
Jill

Original Message:
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From: Mark Kohut markekohut at yahoo.com
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:29:12 -0700 (PDT)
To: pynchon-l at waste.org, michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Subject: Chance and Necessity


Michael Bailey wrote:

quien sabe? I would agree @ first glance...my take would
be something like "the invisible clockmaker" or something, you
know, the Enlightenment (deist? theist?) God who set everything
in motion according to immutable rules and it proceeds thusly...

the sort of God suggested by Newtonian physics, that is, creating
a spacetime in which, the cliche goes something like "if you knew
enough data at any given moment and applied the rules, you could
both predict and backtrack accurately"

which even Newton probably would hesitate to apply to
the whole universe,

MK---Yes, the Enlightenment God who set everything in motion
thru many scientists to the present day who do argue the " if enough data
and the laws of physics. etc....'" which Pynchon will not believe....

I posted the 'chance' as an element in the universe notion on the P-wiki.


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