Full Idea
Chance, as an objective phenomenon, is a property of a distribution. ...In order to have any meaning, it must refer to some definite arrangement of all the things.
Gist of Idea
Objective chance is the property of a distribution
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (Reasoning and the Logic of Things [1898], VI)
Book Reference
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.204