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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Any theory which conceives chance as an objective reality; esp., a theory of evolution which considers that variation may be purely fortuitous.

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Examples

  • Tychism is a fundamental doctrinal part of Peirce's view, and reference to his tychism provides an added reason for Peirce's insisting on the irreducible fallibilism of inquiry.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • Peirce called his doctrine that chance has an objective status in the universe “tychism,” a word taken from the Greek word for

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • It might be thought that, when Peirce adopted the view that there is objective spontaneity in the universe, which allows it to achieve only more or less entrenched objective habits (His “tychism”), he perforce must have give up the foregoing account of probability.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • This insistence on the fallibilism of human inquiry is connected with several other important themes of Peirce's philosophy, such as his tychism, his evolutionism, and his anti-determinism.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • Given Peirce's tychism and his view that statistical information is often the most exact information we can have about phenomena, it should not be surprising that Peirce devoted close attention to probability theory and statistical analysis.

    Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

  • Peirce's tychism — radical determinism as well as radi - cal finalism virtually and sometimes even explicitly eliminate time altogether in fusing the successive phases into a single instantaneous unity of the

    TIME MILI�� ��APEK 1968

  • Peirce's theory of tychism (Greek: tyche = chance) according to which “chance is a basic factor in the universe.”

    INDETERMINACY IN PHYSICS MAX JAMMER 1968

  • Peirce's tychism and fallibilism, James's soft deter - minism, O.W. Holmes's “bet-abilitarianism,” and

    PRAGMATISM PHILIP P. WIENER 1968

  • Others, however, prefer to call this tychism, or mere chance succession.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Peirce meets this objection by combining his tychism

    A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

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  • When viewing the species’ sad state

    I’m weary and feebly irate.

    If tychism’s spin

    Could give us a win

    I’ll take it in preference to fate.

    April 14, 2019