Randomness

are possibilities of different outcomes during the same events. The idea of uncertainty is also very much related to indeterminism. Libertarianism has a relation with all these forms of the ideas including freedom, free will, predetermination, and randomness. Whether they have similar theories or have extreme differences, non the less they all have some form of…

determinism is false, and that human acts are free from external influence, then it is true that people act out of free will. However, some libertarians’ belief in limited causation is called agent causation; this is an attempt to resolve the problem of randomness. (Sider, 120) Compatibilism is a belief that both free will and determinism can and should indeed coexist. The proponents of this belief argue that the conflict between free will and determinism is only an illusion based on the…

She did not even have a symbolic tent to get in. In drama, we learn that randomness is the kiss of death, but this kiss of death was a little overkill. The odds of only Max’s love interest also escaping and going to the same exact place as him is so inconceivable that there is no real point in considering it as a possibility. Max…

Doritos are being consumed by all different ages and genders all over the globe. Doritos come in many different flavors, which have given it an advantage over other competitive chip companies. Similar to every other type of product, Doritos have come up with many different ways of propaganda to get their product noticed. One in particular caught my eye and definitely influenced me in many different ways. In this commercial, there are three men in waste deep water trying to noodle catfish.…

are caused by forces over which we have no control, we do not act freely. Therefore, we never act freely” (Rachels 478). In this article, Rachels states that everything in the universe functions on determined factors—that choice, free will, and randomness do not exist. To put it another way, let’s use the weather as an example of a determined factor. If we turn on the news or check our phones for the weather conditions, we are able to see the weather by the hour, day, or even the week. We…

Dada was an anti-art movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland in the early 20th century in 1916 (Young). The term anti-art refers to a rebellion against the war and destruction that had happened years before. It started as a response to World War I and the nationalism that it is believed led to the war (Elza Adamowicz). It was influenced by other avant-garde movements such as Expressionism, Cubism and Futurism (Craft). The name Dada is known to have been selected at random from a dictionary,…

“Are you thinking what I am thinking?” “Yes. If we put little wheels on the bottoms of our shoes, we could just roll around everywhere...” The characters Helena and Valentine from the film MirrorMask have this dialogue and it sums up the randomness of surrealism. It emphasizes how two completely arbitrary unrelated objects can be fused together in the creative world of surrealism where there essentially are no boundaries. This essay will discuss that in terms of the film MirrorMask, and Un…

storylines that all manage to converge at the end. Pulp fiction takes the conventional drama narrative and completely reworks it, making this film the masterpiece that it is. Ultimately, pulp fiction is about how one's ethic and morals stem from the randomness of life. Tarantino's views on ethics is similar to the French philosopher Emmaneul Levinas, who states ethics are formed purely by chance. Pulp fiction is told through accidents and misadventure; most, if not all characters, were simply…

composition, sometimes slightly varied or transposed to a different pitch. In this piece, the rhythm almost seems to be off, giving the listener a feeling of rhythmic dissonance. As the listener is trying to get a feel for the melody of the woodwinds, the randomness of the snare drum hitting not on the third beat of a measure gives the feeling of…

I live in a world of crazy numbers and fancy acronyms, the world of sabermetrics. Originally defined by Bill James in 1980, sabermetrics is "the search for objective knowledge about baseball", yet the term has grown into much, much more. Sabermetrics give ordinary people like me, the tools to predict the future, to forecast the worth of a human being with a couple of intricate formulas and a pinch of extrapolation. It appeared to be magic when I first learned about the masses of statistics…