Chance
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Magnum Chaos (c. 1524 ) by Lorenzo Lotto
“Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant.” — Nathanael West
“Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant.” — Nathanael West
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Given enough time, a chimpanzee punching at random on a typewriter would almost surely type out all of Shakespeare's plays.
Photo: Chimpanzee Typing (1907) - New York Zoological Society
Photo: Chimpanzee Typing (1907) - New York Zoological Society
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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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