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Causality and target-tracking

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Determinism or indeterminism or something else

Determinism is a philosophical position stating that for everything that happens there are conditions such that, given those conditions, nothing else could happen. Representatives deny the existence of random events. Indeterminism is the philosophical concept that there exist random events, i.e. certain events are not caused. It is the opposite of determinism.

I would like to show that there is a third possibility in the case of debate of determinism and indeterminism.1 So the law of excluded middle is not usable.

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1 The determinism / indeterminism issue has been touched upon "About freedom and free will" , I was writing.

 

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