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Reply to Dr. Erasmus – Part 3: Clarification of My Reasoning
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"When we describe something as a random process or an event as occurring by chance, there are two very different things that we may have in mind. ...[One such concept of chance applies to processes] that are apparently random, but have a deterministic basis. ... The process is apparently random because we are ignorant of at least part of the deterministic basis. We use words like chance and random to indicate our ignorance. "We should separate apparently random processes from irreducibly random processes. An irreducibly random process is one that has no deterministic basis. That is, for an irreducibly random process, there is no set of laws of nature that can be applied to a complete description of the initial state of the system to permit the deduction of a description of the outcome. Philip Kitcher, Abusing Science (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982), p. 86.