Re: Determinism

From: Aaron Agassi (agassi@erols.com)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 11:46:01 BST

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Subject: Re: Determinism
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 06:46:01 -0400
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    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Robin Faichney" <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk>
    To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
    Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 6:15 AM
    Subject: Re: Determinism

    > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:48:21AM -0400, Aaron Agassi wrote:
    > >
    > > > "An unnecessary redundant additional unknown factor" is redundant (as
    > > > well as incoherent). I'm only suggesting that perhaps some events
    don't
    > > > have a cause. In this case, "there is nothing which happens that does
    > > > not have a cause" is the positive upon which the burden of evidentiary
    > > > support rests.
    > > >
    > > No, it is a competing hypothesis, yes, also positive, upon which the
    burden
    > > of evidentiary support also rests. A burden of evidentiary support which
    is
    > > met, to a high degree, by a countless tally of demonstrably caused
    results.
    > > And no other sort.
    > >
    > > Or is there any example of a confirmed uncaused result? Is the
    hypothesis
    > > that there is any such thing, even testable?
    >
    > While I'm no expert in the area, it is my impression that the concensus
    > of opinion among physicists is that such events do occur.
    >

    Indeed?

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