On Mon, Jun 06, 2011 at 08:31:35PM -0400, Stephen Paul King wrote: > Hi Russell, > > I would like to be sure that I understand your point here. Would > you say that "true determinism", as opposed to "true indeterminism", > requires one-to-one mappings between any two adjoining links in the > causal chain of events, each of which is said to be uniquely > determined by its prior? > > Onward! > > Stephen
That is what determinism means. I don't think there can be any meaning attached to false determinism, however, so the true is a little redundant. That is also the case of indeterminism, but some might think that ignorance is a form of indeterminism (which it needn't be). Hence my sticking the redundant "true" tag to make the point. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
