About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 153. Chapters: Causality, Holism, Structured programming, Free will, Determinism, Willard Van Orman Quine, Grandfather paradox, The Evolution of Cooperation, Domino effect, Butterfly effect, Complexity, Process philosophy, Teleology, Ishikawa diagram, Chain reaction, Noosphere, Synergy, Powers of Ten, Layered system, Predestination paradoxes in popular culture, Theory of Colours, Self-fulfilling prophecy, Time loop, Indeterminacy, Causation, Modularity, Eternal return, Semantic holism, Integral, Temporal paradox, Daubert standard, Holism in science, Retrocausality, Four causes, Spho a, Systems thinking, Mereotopology, Synergism, Whitehead's point-free geometry, Holon, Confirmation holism, Modular design, Fatalism, Mereological essentialism, Occasionalism, Property, Simple, Proximate and ultimate causation, Superorganism, Oppression, Modular programming, Organicism, Mereological nihilism, Granger causality, Endogeneity, Predeterminism, Camel's nose, Integral ecology, Mill's Methods, Duhem-Quine thesis, Antireductionism, Chronology protection conjecture, Dysteleology, Part-whole theory, Causal loop diagram, Self-defeating prophecy, Law of Complexity/Consciousness, Causality loop, Synergetics, Holarchy, Emergent evolution, Philosophy of Organism, Holism in ecological anthropology, Causal model, Logical holism, Causal Markov condition, Causal chain. Excerpt: A predestination paradox is a common literary device employed in many fictional and mythological works, dealing with various circumstances and paradoxes that can logically arise from time travel. While technically not a predestination paradox, self-fulfilling prophecy is a related variant which predates the use of time travel as a plot device. Two of the earliest and most famous examples are the ancient Indian story of Krishna in the epic Mahabharata, and the ancient Greek legend...
