10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHANCINESS»
Discover the use of
chanciness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
chanciness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Hard Luck: How Luck Undermines Free Will and Moral ...
Non-significant events are not lucky, though they may be chancy.3 Now, how are
we to understand chanciness? It is tempting to identify chancinesss with
metaphysical indeterminism. In fact, metaphysical indeterminism is not necessary
for ...
2
Probabilities in Physics
The question is whether the use of probabilistic models is best explained in terms
of chanciness and indeterminism. Concerning chanciness, we first need to clarify
what chanciness is. For instance, can one call the galaxy distribution chancy?
Claus Beisbart, Stephan Hartmann, 2011
There is a simple and beautiful and promising theory of the collapse of the
quantum-mechanical wave-function due to Ghirardi and Rimini and Weber that
puts the quantum-mechanical chanciness in differently. On the GRW theory – as
...
Yemima Ben-Menahem, Meir Hemmo, 2012
4
Youth Participation and Experiential Education
THE. RACE. IS. NOT. TO. THE. SWIFT: THE. CHANCINESS. OF. EDUCATION.
Richard Graham ABSTRACT. This article addresses the question of how
experiential education may serve as a means for improving the chances for
success in ...
Daniel Conrad, Diane Hedin, 1982
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Quantitative Risk Management, + Website: A Practical Guide ...
Luck is the irreducible chanciness of life. Luck cannot be controlled, but it can be
managed. What do I mean by luck versus risk? Risk is the interaction of the
uncertainty of future outcomes with the benefits and costs of those outcomes.
Risk can ...
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On Gaia: A Critical Investigation of the Relationship ...
The wandering albatross therefore sits at the other end of the spectrum of
chanciness. In between, at intermediate levels of chanciness, are many other
creatures. A well-known example, sticking with ocean Wanderers, is that of sea
turtles, ...
7
A Companion to the Philosophy of Time
Then, imagine another lawful way these macroscopic entities could evolve
throughout the future seemingly as a result of quantum chanciness. That counts
as another world. The continual branching of worlds implies that as time goes by
the ...
Adrian Bardon, Heather Dyke, 2013
8
Causation and Its Basis in Fundamental Physics
One way this could occur is if we came to believe that the fundamental laws
required a kind of chanciness that severely restricted the extent of past-directed
terminance. For a long time, it was mistakenly believed that quantum mechanics
...
No—for look at what "free will” means to him: ”Chanciness . . . gives meaning to
the old concept of human free will.” Does it? Not at all. ”Chanciness" reflects
nothing but "the genuine randomness of our world.” Our "behavior" is
unpredictable ...
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Derrida and Autobiography
Unless this were the case, the chanciness of contingency would belong wholly to
what Reception Theory calls an 'horizon of expectation', to a phenomenology,
precisely, of reason, and not be bona fide chance at all. Chance must in principle
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHANCINESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
chanciness is used in the context of the following news items.
Floater Raina's time to own high-speed lane
By performing at a better percentage level chanciness is eliminated and match winner remains. Cric__Dude on March 18, 2015, 13:25 GMT. «ESPNcricinfo.com, Mar 15»
The trouble with Boris Johnson: how bad would it really be if this …
A keen and highly visible cyclist, Johnson's swashbuckling default outlook on two-wheel travel is that its chanciness is a challenge to be ... «New Statesman, Jan 15»
Physicists introduce another quantum animal: The Quantum Pigeon
After a century of careful testing, most physicists believe that the "chanciness" or "capriciousness" of the microscopic world is fundamental. «Phys.Org, Aug 14»
A page from Rosemary Sexton's book shows diaries get closest to …
... stories concocted from the raw materials of a life, therefore fictions. It's diaries that get closest to the hapless chanciness of actual, lived life. «rabble.ca, Jul 14»
Rosemary Sexton and the profound triviality of diaries: Salutin
It's diaries that get closest to the hapless chanciness of actual, lived life. Peter C. Newman calls Sexton the Boswell of Canada's upper classes ... «Toronto Star, Jul 14»
FHA Issues Warning on Deceptive and Misleading Reverse …
... advertising strategies currently employed or being proposed” by lenders following the recent Home Equity Conversion Mortgage chanciness, ... «Reverse Mortgage Daily, Jun 14»
Beyond Backlash: Blended, X-Men: DOFP
... When Lauren risks a hang-gliding venture, it symbolizes the chanciness of parenthood (and partnerhood) without forgetting the child within. «National Review Online, May 14»
The Two Faces of Climate Change on the 'Washington Post' Op-Ed …
They were not much on their instruments, but they oozed fun and charisma and a certain kind of decadence/chanciness that was crucial to the ... «The Nation., May 14»
Tahar Rahim, Bérénice Béjo, and Ali Mosaffa in Asghar Farhadi's …
In the chanciness of these relationships, and their transience, many Muslims may recognize the moral failings of the West—spurious freedoms ... «The New York Review of Books, Feb 14»
True Detective's Great Fourth Episode
... more effective dramatically, with the chanciness of the camera work making his escape—from police, bricks, bullets—seem even narrower. «First Things, Feb 14»
