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Indeterminism is the idea that events (or certain events, or events of certain types) are not caused, or are not caused deterministically.. It is the opposite of determinism and related to chance.
It is what is known as a Type B reaction. Type B reactions have the following characteristics: they are usually unpredictable, might not be picked up by toxicological screening, not necessarily dose-related, incidence and morbidity low but mortality is high. Type B reactions are most commonly immunological (e.g. penicillin allergy). [6]
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
The corresponding Latin antonym, ars, is the source of English art, which is not an antonym of inert. Inflammable Flammable Synonym. From Latin flammare meaning "to catch fire". Inflammable is from Latin inflammare meaning "to cause to catch fire". Antonym is nonflammable. [4] Innocent Nocent Rare. Means "harmful". Innocuous Nocuous Uncommon [5 ...
Taleb contends that banks and trading firms are very vulnerable to hazardous black swan events and are exposed to unpredictable losses. On the subject of business, and quantitative finance in particular, Taleb critiques the widespread use of the normal distribution model employed in financial engineering , calling it a Great Intellectual Fraud .
Clinamen (/ k l aɪ ˈ n eɪ m ən /; plural clinamina, derived from clīnāre, to incline) is the Latin name Lucretius gave to the unpredictable swerve of atoms, in order to defend the atomistic doctrine of Epicurus. In modern English it has come more generally to mean an inclination or a bias.
Capricious, unpredictable, volatile cassa Drum, usually an orchestral bass drum. Sometimes written as Gran Cassa where Gran specifically means Bass cavalleresco Chivalrous (used in Carl Nielsen's violin concerto) cédez (Fr.) Yield, give way cesura or caesura (Lat.)
"Unpredictable" (Jamie Foxx song), the title song "Unpredictable" (Olly Murs and Louisa Johnson song), 2017 "Unpredictable", a song by Keshia Chanté from Keshia Chanté, 2004 "Unpredictable", a song by 5 Seconds of Summer from the EP Somewhere New, 2012 "Unpredictable"(Jackson Yee song), a song by Jackson Yee, 2017