The Necessary and the Random in Actuality and Cognition

Authors

  • Georgij D. Levin Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences

Keywords:

necessity, necessary, contingency, random, determination, connection, function, causality, pre-established harmony, consecutive determinism, soft determinism, connection of states

Abstract

The necessary is seen in this article as an event that is unambiguously determined by the preceding state of the universum, the random is seen as an event that is not in any way determined by it. The author provides a classification of different types of the necessary. The author argues the position of the consecutive determinism. According to this position all events in the world are equally necessary and what we call random is seen as the unknown necessity.

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Published

2018-10-16

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Theory and methodology of science and technology