| Chaos, philosophy: chaos is a state of disorder. Physical chaos research is about the conditions under which an originally non-chaotic and thus predictable behavior of a nonlinear dynamic system becomes unpredictable behavior through relatively small external influences. See also prediction, experiments, forces, determinism._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |