(adjective) depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss / (adjective) relating to luck and especially to bad luck
the inauguration of an aleatory drift
Because representation of the people was brought about by the drawing of lots, we might speak of an aleatoric-representative democracy (from the Latin for dice)
in Athens
there is aleatory performance now as well as composition
finding a limited grace means combining hard work with an essentially aleatory view of the self that is reminiscent of existentialism
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The thing that most exasperates you is to find yourself at the mercy of the fortuitous, the aleatory, the random, in things and in human actions
ethics, seeking its sources and sanctions, experiences shock when it learns that it originated in the aleatoric chemistry of nucleic acids
the aleatory flutter of uncontrolled metastatic growth
The robot pointed out pleasantly, dispassionately, that it would, certainly, be political suicide for a legislator to attempt to introduce an aleatory element into the allocation of minors
The aleatory interplay of these factors
completely displacing the question by inventing the ‘aleatory materialism’ of his last texts