What’s a chance event? Contrasting different senses of ‘chance’ with Aristotle’s idea of meaningful unusual accidents

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  • Alexander Maar

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https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_32_03

Keywords:

chance, Aristotle, tyche, automaton

Abstract

In this article, we present and explain ten different possible meanings of a chance event – some ontological, some epistemic – and provide examples whenever possible. We describe and illustrate more carefully the view of chance (tyche) expressed by Aristotle in his Physics, a demanding and complex notion, and critically contrast it with the other senses examined, attempting to determine any
(in)compatibilism. 

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2022-04-15

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Maar, A. (2022). What’s a chance event? Contrasting different senses of ‘chance’ with Aristotle’s idea of meaningful unusual accidents. Revista Archai, (32), e03203. https://doi.org/10.14195/1984-249X_32_03

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