The WreckIgnitions Read...another chance
Mark Kohut
markekohut at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 3 18:32:03 CDT 2011
Okay, three times we get a reference to chance in this first section. An
anti-determinism idea in this doctrinally-infused presentation of religion in
culture. [fill in your
own determinism, religious Calvinism or science,]].......
God does not play dice with the universe---Einstein....I remember some Barthelme
story playing with
this concept.............
Chance or Necessity? one of THE touching-bottom questions
...a later, early 70s book by a French scientist, Monod, I think.....
C.S. Pierce, American philosopher has one of the strongest arguments for the
existence
of chance in the universe.......to oversimplify, of course, he says it is the
only way anything new
could ever enter the cosmos...and, something new must or else it would never
HAVE ever changed....
From Stanford Ency of Philosophy:
What Peirce calls his “tychism,” which is his anti-deterministic insistence that
there is objective chance in the world, is also intimately connected to his
fallibilism. (Tychism will be discussed below.)
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