abstract:Tychism ( "chance") is a thesis proposed by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce that holds that absolute chance, or indeterminism, is a real factor operative in the universe. This doctrine forms a central part of Peirce's comprehensive evolutionary cosmology.
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the theory that chance is an objective reality at work in the universe, esp in evolutionary adaptations 偶成论; 在进化论的改写本中认为自然界的变化主要是偶然的结果的理论
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