Re: Re: Comp, Chance and Necessity, the large and the small

2012-11-20 Thread Roger Clough
bject: Re: Comp, Chance and Necessity, the large and the small On Monday, November 19, 2012 6:03:08 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: Platonia= necessity and lawful Contingia= probabilistic but blind. For any universe in which we could participate, there is also: Preference = Neither necessar

Re: Comp, Chance and Necessity, the large and the small

2012-11-19 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Monday, November 19, 2012 6:03:08 AM UTC-5, rclough wrote: > > > > Platonia= necessity and lawful > Contingia= probabilistic but blind. > > > For any universe in which we could participate, there is also: Preference = Neither necessary nor blind nor completely lawful nor completely ra

Re: Comp, Chance and Necessity, the large and the small

2012-11-19 Thread Russell Standish
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 06:03:03AM -0500, Roger Clough wrote: > > > 1) In his classic work on evolution, Chance and Necessity, > Jacques Monod describes this natural process as consisting > of a combination of chance mutations (contingency), which are blind > but free, and necessity, which knows