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The Alchemist The Alchemist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 3,533,702 ratings — published 1988
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Arcadia Arcadia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 24,055 ratings — published 1993
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“It’s actually funny that science lays claim to randomness since no one has ever seen a random event. Scientists interpret events as random rather than causal because of their dogmatic ideology. Their paradigm forbids them from referring to unobservable causal processes – implying a reality more fundamental than science which science cannot penetrate – but accepts randomness, as the least threat to science’s supremacy, even though, in Hume’s terms, randomness is no more empirical than causation, hence no more scientifically valid, and infinitely less rational!”
David Sinclair, Universals Versus Particulars: The Ultimate Intellectual War

“There is no such thing as randomness. No one who could detect every force operating on a pair of dice would ever play dice games, because there would never be any doubt about the outcome. The randomness, such as it is, applies to our ignorance of the possible outcomes. It doesn’t apply to the outcomes themselves. They are 100% determined and are not random in the slightest. Scientists have become so confused by this that they now imagine that things really do happen randomly, i.e. for no reason at all.”
Thomas Stark, God Is Mathematics: The Proofs of the Eternal Existence of Mathematics

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