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Explaining and Alleviating Information Management Indeterminism: A Knowledge-based Framework

open access: yes, 2004
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Department of MIS, University of ArizonaOur research attempted to identify the nature and causes of information management indeterminism in an online research environment and to propose solutions for alleviating this ...
Danowitz, A.K.   +4 more
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The Hole Argument, Manifold Substantivalism, and Ontic Structural Realism [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2021
The hole argument has become one of the main issues in the philosophy of space-time after the article by Earman and Norton (1987), according to which a certain version of substantivalism (manifold substantivalism) cannot be defended because it brings ...
Saeed Masoumi
doaj   +1 more source

Developments in Quantum Probability and the Copenhagen Approach

open access: yesEntropy, 2018
In the Copenhagen approach to quantum mechanics as characterized by Heisenberg, probabilities relate to the statistics of measurement outcomes on ensembles of systems and to individual measurement events via the actualization of quantum potentiality ...
Gregg Jaeger
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Determinism and Divine Agency According to Allamah Tabatabaei [PDF]

open access: yesPizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī, 2018
The way God intervenes in the natural world is considered a major and long-standing issue in the realm of theology and philosophy of religion where efforts to resolve it has led to proposing various and, at times, opposing views, spanning from ...
Seyed Mohammad Faghih   +1 more
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Contingence, déterminisme et « just-so stories »

open access: yesTracés, 2013
A number of contrasting uses of contingency are discussed, with an emphasis on the relation of contingency with indeterminism and determinism. We find associations with indeterminism problematic.
Clint Ballinger
doaj   +1 more source

What’s a chance event? Contrasting different senses of ‘chance’ with Aristotle’s idea of meaningful unusual accidents

open access: yesArchai: Revista de Estudos sobre as Origens do Pensamento Ocidental, 2022
In this article, I present and explain ten different possible meanings of a chance event – some ontological, some epistemic – and provide examples whenever possible.
Alexander Maar
doaj   +1 more source

A Stochastic Process Model for Free Agency under Indeterminism. [PDF]

open access: yesDialectica (Bern), 2018
The aim of this paper is to establish that free agency, which is a capacity of many animals including human beings, is compatible with indeterminism: An indeterministic world allows for the existence of free agency.
Müller T, Briegel HJ.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Comment on ‘Quantum principle of relativity’

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2023
Dragan and Ekert ( New J. Phys. 22 033038) have recently claimed that fundamental properties of quantum physics (e.g. fundamental indeterminism and the principle of superposition) can be derived solely from relativistic considerations, if one takes as ...
Flavio Del Santo, Sebastian Horvat
doaj   +1 more source

Tense and Indeterminateness [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophy of Science, 2000
Is tense real and objective? Can the fact that something is past, say, be wholly objective, consistent with modern physics? I believe that it can. But some hold that for tense to be real, then a certain ontological doctrine must also hold. There must be a fact of the matter as to what really, truly, exists at each time.
openaire   +3 more sources

Reply to the Comment on ‘Quantum principle of relativity’

open access: yesNew Journal of Physics, 2023
We discuss critical remarks raised by Horodecki (2023 arXiv: 2301.07802 [quant-ph]) toward our work on the connection between superluminal extension of special relativity and fundamental aspects of quantum theory.
Andrzej Dragan, Artur Ekert
doaj   +1 more source

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