[발췌] Charles Peirce - chance, randomness, probabilities

"chance itself pours in at every avenue of sense"

"all human affairs rest upon probabilities, and the same thing is true everywhere"

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출처 1: Charles S. Peirce. The Logic of Interdisciplinarity. 'The Monist' - Series. Herausgaben von Eilze Bisanz. Oldenbourg Verlag. 2009.


※ 발췌(excerpt):

§ 24. Conservatism is wholesome and necessary; the most convinced radical must admit the wisdom of it, in the abstract; and a conservative will be in no haste to espouse the doctine of absolute chance. I, myself, pondered over it for long years before doing so. But I am persuaded, at lengthm that mankind will before very long take up with it; and I do not believe pholosophers weill be found tagging on to the tail of the general procession.

My little dialogue between tychist and the necessitarian (^The Monist^ Vol. II. pp. 331-333)[주]45 seems to have represented pretty fairly the views of the latter; ( ... ... )

Dr. Carus admits that absolute chance is "not unimaginable" (¶ 150). Chance itself pours in at every avenue of sense: it is of all things the most obtrusive. That it is absolute, is the most manifest of all intellectual perceptions. That it is a being, living and conscious, is what all the dullness that belongs to ratiocination's self can scarce muster hardhood to deny. ( ... ... )