tychism
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun Any theory which conceives chance as an objective reality; esp., a theory of evolution which considers that variation may be purely fortuitous.
Examples
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It might be thought that, when Peirce adopted the view that there is objective spontaneity in the universe, which allows it to achieve only more or less entrenched objective habits (His “tychism”), he perforce must have give up the foregoing account of probability.
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Peirce's theory of tychism (Greek: tyche = chance) according to which “chance is a basic factor in the universe.”
Note
The word 'tychism' comes from a Greek word meaning 'chance'.
