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Masimat t1_j7ftjbw wrote

Whenever I mention determinism vs indeterminism, people seem to always respond in terms of the universe. The universe may be 100% deterministic, but that doesn't mean there aren't indeterministic aspects of reality. What caused Big Bang? It was probably an uncaused event.

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xAppleJuice t1_j850s7k wrote

The problem is in opposing, as idealists usually do, determinism and indeterminism. In reality, there is no such thing as a free will that does not depend on anything, since the acts of men are determined by definite causes and it is a mistake to suggest that the natural course of things in the world is not subject to laws.

Regarding the Big Bang, the same thing happens, it could be said that it was not a random or fortuitous event, but was determined by the conditions and physical laws that existed at that time.

Now, to recognize the conditioning of all the phenomena of nature, it is also necessary to deny absolute metaphysical determinism, which affirms that the recognition of the existence of necessity leads to completely denying all chance in nature and in society and makes the active intervention of man is unnecessary, which, taken to its logical conclusion, becomes fatalism, belief in luck (destiny) or in quietism and preaching of the complete passivity of man. By recognizing the existence of necessity in nature and in history, chance is not denied, but is explained as a form of manifestation of objective causal connections. The same occurs with the acceptance of the relative freedom of human will, where the active, diligent participation of man in the course of events is required.

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