We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate
ABRAHAM DE MOIVRE
ABRAHAM DE MOIVRE
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Abraham de Moivre3 quotes“We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and may calculate”
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What Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
Abraham de MoivreAbraham de Moivre Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design
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