the non-rule of the clinamen

the clinamen of the will

If Lucretius's clinamen existed, that random swerve that can disrupt the arc of fate, it wouldn't be located in atoms but in those people

metaphorical expression in the doctrine of the clinamen or random ‘swerving’ of atoms

'Westward' enacts a clinamen

The angle α is the clinamen of the individual conatus, its spontaneous misalignment relative to the ends of the enterprise: α thus expresses the persistent heterogeneity of the conatus relative to the master-desire