Indeterminism

Quick meaning: Indeterminism is a noun meaning (countable) Any situation in which the outcome cannot be completely predicted in advance.

Meaning

(countable) Any situation in which the outcome cannot be completely predicted in advance.

More Meanings

1. (countable, computing) A situation in which there are multiple valid options for next step in a process.
2. (ethics, religion, uncountable) The doctrine that all human actions are not so much determined by the preceding events, conditions, causes or karma as by deliberate choice or free will.
3. (countable, physics) A case in which the uncertainty principle applies; a case in which certain pairs of physical properties such as the position and momentum of a particle cannot be known simultaneously.

Example Sentences

This parallelism brings in conflicts and directional indeterminisms which cannot be solved by the CU.

These indeterminisms confuse a regular bus arbiter in deciding whether a transaction should be aborted or resumed.

There is a whole gradation of more or less rigid determinisms and more or less free indeterminisms, as they have been given in various theories.

The classic examples in physics involve relativity theory and quantum theory and the recognition of the indeterminisms underlying those required the genius of Einstein and of Heisenberg.

Word Forms

• indeterminisms

Synonyms for indeterminism

Depending on context, synonyms include free will, libertarianism.

Antonyms for indeterminism

Common opposites include determinism, fatalism, predeterminism, uncertainty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include free will, inevitabilism, indeterminacy, incompatibilism, nondeterminism, determinablism.

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