Chance
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- | {{Template}}'''Chance''' can be used in any of the following contexts: | + | [[Image:Magnum Chaos by Lorenzo Lotto and Giovan Francesco Capoferri.jpg|thumb|left|200px|''[[Magnum Chaos]]'' (c. 1524 ) by [[Lorenzo Lotto]] |
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+ | “Your order is meaningless, my [[chaos]] is [[significant]].” — [[Nathanael West]] | ||
+ | ]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Chimpanzee Typing (1907) - New York Zoological Society.jpg|thumb|200px|Given enough time, a [[chimpanzee]] punching at [[random]] on a [[typewriter]] would [[almost surely]] type out all of [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] plays. | ||
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+ | Photo: ''[[Chimpanzee Typing]]'' (1907) - New York Zoological Society]] | ||
- | * [[Probability]] | + | {{Template}} |
+ | '''Chance''' refers to an [[opportunity]] or [[possibility]]; a [[random]] [[occurrence]]; [[luck]]; the [[probability]] of something happening. | ||
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+ | == In philosophy, logic and theology == | ||
+ | * [[Chance (philosophy)]] or indeterminism | ||
+ | * [[Contingency (philosophy)]] | ||
* [[Luck]] | * [[Luck]] | ||
+ | * [[Probability]] | ||
* [[Randomness]] | * [[Randomness]] | ||
- | * [[Contingency]] | ||
== See also == | == See also == | ||
- | *''[[An Anecdoted Topography of Chance]]'' by Daniel Spoerri (with Roland Topor) | + | *''[[An Anecdoted Topography of Chance]]'' by Daniel Spoerri (1962, with Roland Topor) |
- | + | *''[[The Dice Man]]'' (1971) by Luke Rhinehart | |
+ | * [[Aleatory art]] | ||
+ | *[[Chaos]] | ||
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Chance refers to an opportunity or possibility; a random occurrence; luck; the probability of something happening.
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In philosophy, logic and theology
- Chance (philosophy) or indeterminism
- Contingency (philosophy)
- Luck
- Probability
- Randomness
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See also
- An Anecdoted Topography of Chance by Daniel Spoerri (1962, with Roland Topor)
- The Dice Man (1971) by Luke Rhinehart
- Aleatory art
- Chaos
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