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The Decline of Determinism: Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association, 1932

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

A. S. Eddington
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 16 , Issue 218 , May 1932 , pp. 66 - 80
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1932

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page no 70 note * With a view to learning what might be said from the philosophical side against the abandonment of determinism, I took part in a symposium of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association in July, 1931. Indeterminists were strongly represented, but unfortunately there were no determinists in the symposium, and apparently none in the audience which discussed it. I can scarcely suppose that determinist philosophers are extinct, but it may be left to their colleagues to deal with them.

page no 78 note * For the thing we failed to predict (exact position at time t 2) would be meaningless.