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CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ") , an accident or event, a phenomenon which has no apparent or discoverable cause; hence an event which has not been expected, a piece of good or bad fortune. From the popular idea
chance (Gr. Tbxn) was regarded as having a substantial objective existence, being itself the source of such uncaused phenomena. For the philosophic theories relating
ACCIDENTALISM
" Chance ," in the theory of probability , is used in two ways. In the stricter, or mathematical usage, it is synonymous with probability ; i.e. if a particular event may occur in n ways in an aggregate of p events, then the " chance " of the particular event occurring is given by the fraction n/p. In the second usage, the "chance" is regarded as the ratio of the number of ways which a particular event may occur to the number of ways in which it may not occur; mathematically expressed, this chance is n/(p-n) (see PROBABILITY). In the English
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