The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Causation and Force’

Term: 
Chance
Quote: 

Chance […] as an objective phenomenon, is a property of a distribution. That is to say, there is a large collection consisting, say, of colored things and of white things. Chance is a particular manner of distribution of color among all the things. But in order that this phrase should have any meaning, it must refer to some definite arrangement of all the things.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1898). Cambridge Lectures on Reasoning and the Logic of Things: Causation and Force. MS [R] 443
Date: 
1898
References: 
RLT 204; CP 6.74
Citation: 
‘Chance’ (pub. 16.10.15-18:28). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-cambridge-lectures-reasoning-and-logic-things-causation-and-force.
Posted: 
Oct 16, 2015, 18:28 by Mats Bergman
Last revised: 
Oct 22, 2015, 16:32 by Mats Bergman