The WreckIgnitions Read...another chance

[Mark Kohut]

Speculatin' ain't sure......5 times we get a reference to chance...
but it may mean Fate---not chance at all them Greeks tell us...

So, just a deeper patterning of determinism?...
what kind of determinism, conceptually?



----- Original Message ----
From: Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>; pov at ix.netcom.com
Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 9:16:00 PM
Subject: Re: The WreckIgnitions Read...another chance

Not sure about this, Mark.  You're saying there's an
anti-deterministic thread that gets started early in TR?

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 7:40 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 3?...saerch inside this book function tells me there are 5 FIVE uses
> oc chance including in an Odysseus allusion Chance called Fate.....
> which riddles another spin on the deterministic notion............
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Sun, April 3, 2011 7:32:03 PM
> Subject: The WreckIgnitions Read...another chance
>
> 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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