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- noun
Inability to bepredicted oranticipated .
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Examples
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But against this idea of the absolute originality and unforeseeability of forms our whole intellect rises in revolt.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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In vain, therefore, does life evolve before our eyes as a continuous creation of unforeseeable form: the idea always persists that form, unforeseeability and continuity are mere appearance -- the outward reflection of our own ignorance.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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It is quite certain, for instance, that if we could view the evolution of life in its entirety, the spontaneity of its movement and the unforeseeability of its procedures would thrust themselves on our attention.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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Willed order, mutual contingency of willed order and mathematical order, 231-3 unforeseeability in the, 224, 342-3
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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And we find an order no less admirable in a symphony of Beethoven, which is genius, originality, and therefore unforeseeability itself.
Evolution créatrice. English Henri Bergson 1900
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It suggests, that is, an approach to thinking that can respond with agility and lightness to the fact of change, to the unforeseeability of things.
thinkBuddha.org 2010
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Yet I cannot help but note the irony of Judge Hellerstein's invoking the practical unforeseeability of a second plane's being hijacked as the basis for dismissing a claim of duty on the part of American to the passengers of United Flight 11 and / or the ground victims of United Flight 11.
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Yet I cannot help but note the irony of Judge Hellerstein's invoking the practical unforeseeability of a second plane's being hijacked as the basis for dismissing a claim of duty on the part of American to the passengers of United Flight 11 and / or the ground victims of United Flight 11.
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There is always an unforeseeability problem in any human endeavour, and claiming the priority of a single reference frame in all reference frames is so ironically recursive that I don't know what more to say.
Scrivener's Error 2008
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