Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in Dec. 2011
We call chance to that combination of unforeseeable and unavoidable circumstances, which are difficult to anticipate and prevent from happening and which ends up producing a event or situations that were not expected or planned; Some can have a super positive consequence, that is, they may be pleasant surprises and generate substantial changes in those who live it, despite do not expect them, while there are others that, on the contrary, can be experienced as absolutely negative and, for example, generate consequences for nothing beautiful.
Circumstances that are not expected or can not be avoided and that combine to produce events that were not expected in any way or have a logical explanation
Then, everything that happens by chance will be characterized by its unpredictability and in no way can it be circumvented or avoided, no one can twist the hand of chance we could affirm. "I was walking and by chance I ran into a former classmate from elementary school, we couldn't believe it. My sister and her husband were robbed at the door of her house, by chance, the thieves did not surprise us too, since we arrived in five minutes.”
Chance will always imply obtaining something without a cause that produces it, that is, it happens just because, without explanation logic or rational, and it usually generates coincidences or even important discoveries, that is, I was doing this or that thing and suddenly I found something unknown and unexpected.
For example, I was going to my yoga class and I meet my best friend's husband with another woman; doing my yoga routine, I stumbled upon that unexpected fact
Many discoveries that have occurred throughout the history of mankind arrived in this casual way, without looking for them some, or going in search of other questions, and suddenly surprised the appearance of a discovery unexpected.
Opposing positions in the face of coincidences
There are important controversies as to whether or not chance exists; There are those who hold firmly that they do, and for example, if they walk, they stumble and when they fall to the ground they find themselves in the I usually with a wad of money they will attribute it to chance and the good fortune that always accompanies them.
Meanwhile, those who do not believe in it, maintain that it is simply temporal and spatial coincidences, attributing to the chance situation a clear rational explanation.
Or there is also another position among those who do not believe in chance and attribute it to a plan devised by supernatural forces that is popularly called destiny.
Now, and without a doubt, beyond any position on this issue there is a quota of mystery around chance that makes it interesting and that obviously when it appears to us will immediately make us fly the imagination and the reason for finding an explanation, but of course, it could be that we will never find it, it depends on the position we take in front of it.
In the field of knowledge, chance often represents a problem because of course, the theory is based on studies concrete that allow to affirm something, although of course, many times what is expected to happen, happens in a different way to what was provided.
It should be noted that for math, chance is associated with randomness; randomness is a process whose result is not predictable, since the random in it, then, this implies that the result of a random event cannot be known before it actually occurs.
It is plausible to speak in terms of probabilities from statistics
Lucky, contingency, unforeseen, eventuality, fluke, accident and chance are some terms associated with the concept of chance and that are usually used as synonyms for it.
Instead, fatality, safety and forecast they are directly opposed to chance.
Themes in Chance