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Full Idea
Chance is the name for some law that is unknown to us? If you say 'each die moves under the influence of precise mechanical laws', it seems to me it is not these laws which made the tie turn up sixes, for the laws act the same when other throws come up.
Gist of Idea
Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs
Source
Charles Sanders Peirce (The Doctrine of Necessity Examined [1892], p.333)
Book Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Philosophical Writings of Peirce', ed/tr. Buchler,Justus [Dover 1940], p.333
14803 | The more precise the observations, the less reliable appear to be the laws of nature [Peirce] |
14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
14805 | Is there any such thing as death among the lower organisms? [Peirce] |
14806 | If the world is just mechanical, its whole specification has no more explanation than mere chance [Peirce] |