Source: 1940s-1950s, Administrative Behavior, 1947, p. 79; As cited in: Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores (1986) Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. p. 21.
“The stronghold of the determinist argument is the antipathy to the idea of chance…This notion of alternative possibility, this admission that any one of several things may come to pass is, after all, only a roundabout name for chance.”
The Dilemma of Determinism (1884) p.153
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