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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 Ref
Peirce,Charles Sanders: 'Reasoning and the Logic of Things', ed/tr. Ketner,K.L. [Harvard 1992], p.204
| 13106 | Maybe there is no pure chance; a man's choices cause his chance meetings [Aristotle] |
| 13108 | Chance is a coincidental cause among events involving purpose and choice [Aristotle] |
| 13110 | Intrinsic cause is prior to coincidence, so nature and intelligence are primary causes, chance secondary [Aristotle] |
| 2215 | There is no such thing as chance [Hume] |
| 14804 | Is chance just unknown laws? But the laws operate the same, whatever chance occurs [Peirce] |
| 19252 | Objective chance is the property of a distribution [Peirce] |
| 23900 | Chance is compatible with necessity, and the two occur together [Weil] |
| 15560 | We can explain a chance event, but can never show why some other outcome did not occur [Lewis] |
| 20146 | 'Luck' is the unpredictable and inexplicable intersection of causal chains [Kekes] |
| 19671 | The idea of chance relies on unalterable physical laws [Meillassoux] |