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tychism|ˈtaɪkɪz(ə)m|
[f. Gr. τύχη chance + -ism.]
The doctrine that objective account must be taken of the element of chance in (philosophical, cosmological, etc.) reasoning.
1892C. S. Peirce in Monist II. 533, I endeavored to show what ideas ought to form the warp of a system of philosophy, and particularly emphasised that of absolute chance..which it will be convenient to christen tychism (from τυχη, chance). 1926J. Laird Study in Moral Theory viii. 173 The theory that every event..is necessary (or must occur precisely as it does occur) I shall call determinism... The opposite theory I shall call tychism, such tychism being either general or restricted. 1978Sci. Amer. July 18/1 At a time when determinism dominated physics Peirce's doctrine of ‘tychism’ maintained that pure chance—events undetermined by prior causes—are basic to the universe. |