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  • 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

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

    TIME MILI�� ��APEK 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

  • 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

  • The Einstein-Bohr Controversy about Indeter - minacy.

    INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 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

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