Editing Indeterminism (section)

==Intrinsic indeterminism versus unpredictability==

A distinction is generally made between indeterminism and the mere inability to measure the variables (limits of precision). This is especially the case for physical indeterminism (as proposed by various [[interpretations of quantum mechanics]]). Yet some philosophers have argued that indeterminism and unpredictability are synonymous.<ref>{{cite book|author=Popper, K| title=Of Clouds and Clocks: an approach to the rationality and the freedom of man, included in Objective Knowledge|year=1972|page=220|publisher=Oxford Clarendon Press|quote=Indeterminism—or, more precisely physical indeterminism—is merely the doctrine that not all events in the physical world are predetermined with absolute precision}}</ref>