Does Causal Regularity Defy Chance?

Idealistic Studies 3 (3):277-284 (1973)
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Is it in any way remarkable, and requiring explanation, that events fall into those orderly sequences which we call causal? The alleged problem of causal ordering often presents itself as follows. Of all conceivable universes, the vast majority would be scenes of chaos; why, then, is ours so well-regulated? Why does any situation change predictably, rather than in any one of the alternative logically possible ways? Scientific orderliness must, it is said, reflect metaphysical factors acting to filter out disorder, for otherwise the systematic connection between events would be a matter of extraordinary coincidences.

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God and Scientific Verifiability.John Leslie - 1978 - Philosophy 53 (203):71 - 79.

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