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However, such an attempt made sense only on condition that it would not invest the principles of logic with a similar indeter - minateness, that is to say, that we accord to the funda - mental ideas of logic an exact meaning and to its laws an absolute truth.

AXIOMATIZATION ROBERT BLANCH 1968

The tightrope-walking paradoxist took as his task, quite literally, equivocation, as part of his loyalty to indeter - minacy and to inclusiveness.

LITERARY PARADOX ROSALIE L. COLIE 1968

The two different names of this principle — “uncertainty principle” or “indeter - minacy principle” — suggest two radically different interpretations of it.

TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

Beauty — from Paris produces an explosion that volatil - izes the two figures and paralyzes him for an indeter - minate period.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas STUART ATKINS 1968

The freedom of the will in action is explained by reference to an indeter - minate “swerve” of atoms (Lucretius, II, 250-60).

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ANTHONY A. LONG 1968

In any case, Zurvān was too abstract and too indeter - minate to establish a real unity above the two opposing principles.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas SIMONE P 1968

To avoid ambiguities we shall in what follows call indeterminacy if used in the sense (a), acausal indeter - minacy or briefly a-indeterminacy; if used in the sense

INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968

This indeter - minacy which, as the quotation shows, is both an a-indeterminacy and a u-indeterminacy, made it possi - ble for Epicurus to imbed a doctrine of free will within the framework of an atomic theory.

INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968

Classical physics, it seemed, has to abandon its principle of unlimited precision and to admit, instead, unavoidable i-indeter - minacies.

INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968

From thermodynamics the concepts of entropy and indeter - minacy have been seized upon as a justification for music to copy nature by following laws of chance rather than willful combinations.

MUSIC AND SCIENCE CLAUDE V. PALISCA 1968