Indeterminism

Indeterminism (in Latin ) is a philosophical doctrine that an event is not (or not only) is determined by causal factors. Indeterminism is the opposite of determinism. In the scientific theory of indeterminism is represented among others by John Dupré, Nancy Cartwright and Patrick Suppes.

In physics, the indeterminism refers to the existence of genuine randomness, ie the real unpredictability of events, especially in quantum mechanics.

In religion and ethics of indeterminism is by some Western philosophers consider the basis for the free will of man.

On the other hand, a distinction in theoretical computer science between deterministic and non-deterministic algorithms. The non-determinism is not based against the indeterminism on the concept of chance but a kind of concurrency (parallelism ): the achievement of a goal in a non - targeted manner.