See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the See also:

• LATE

Late See also:

• LAT

Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case ")  , an See also:

• ACCIDENT
• ACCIDENT (from Lat. accidere, to happen)

accident or event, a phenomenon which has no apparent or discoverable cause; hence an event which has not been expected, a piece of See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good or See also:

• BAD, BCD

bad See also:

• FORTUNE, ROBERT (1813-188o)

fortune . From the popular See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea that anything of which no assignable cause is known has therefore no cause, See also:

• CHANCE (through the O. Fr. cheance, from the Late Lat. cadentia, things happening, from cadere, to fall out, happen; cf. " case ")

chance (Gr . Tbxn) was regarded as having a substantial See also:

• OBJECTIVE, or OBJECT GLASS

objective existence, being itself the source of such uncaused phenomena . For the philosophic theories See also:

• RELATING

relating to this subject see See also:

• ACCIDENTALISM

ACCIDENTALISM . " Chance," in the theory of See also:

• PROBABILITY (Lat. probabilis, probable or credible)

probability, is used in two ways . In the stricter, or mathematical usage, it is synonymous with probability; i.e. if a particular event may occur in n ways in an aggregate of p events, then the " chance " of the particular event occurring is given by the fraction n/p . In the second usage, the "chance" is regarded as the ratio of the number of ways which a particular event may occur to the number of ways in which it may not occur; mathematically expressed, this chance is n/(p-n) (see PROBABILITY) . In the See also:

• ENGLISH

English See also:

• LAW
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

law relating to gaming and wagering a distinction is See also:

• DRAWN

drawn between See also:

• GAMES, CLASSICAL

games of chance and games of skill (see GAMING AND WAGERING) .