Are determinism and chaos theory intertwined?

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Are these two things intertwined in that they would decribe a lot of things, if not everything? Are there many examples of things that would fit in another catergory?
 
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A chaotic system IS deterministic, a stochastic (probabiltistic)system is neither deterministic or chaotic.
 

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