Randomness is an unavoidably epistemic concept

Annual Review of the Oxford Philosophical Society 2022 (1) (2022)
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Are there any truly ontologically random events? This paper argues that randomness is an unavoidably epistemic concept and therefore ascription of ontological randomness to any particular event or series of events can never be justified.

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Randomness Is Unpredictability.Antony Eagle - 2005 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 56 (4):749-790.

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