adjective
- relating to or based on the philosophical view that events are not completely determined by prior causes and that some events occur by chance or are unpredictable
Usage: philosophy, physics
Examples
- The physicist argued that quantum mechanics reveals an indeterministic universe at the subatomic level.
- Some philosophers embrace an indeterministic view of human free will.
- The indeterministic nature of radioactive decay cannot be predicted with certainty.
- Critics of determinism propose indeterministic models of causality.
- In an indeterministic system, identical initial conditions may produce different outcomes.