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1 I, 5 | things pass into the first chance thing; "white" does not
2 I, 5 | not-white"-and not into any chance thing which is not white,
3 I, 5 | not-musical"-and not into any chance thing other than musical,
4 II, 4 | 4~But chance also and spontaneity are
5 II, 4 | come to be as a result of chance and spontaneity. We must
6 II, 4 | therefore in what manner chance and spontaneity are present
7 II, 4 | different, and generally what chance and spontaneity are.~Some
8 II, 4 | that nothing happens by chance, but that everything which
9 II, 4 | everything which we ascribe to chance or spontaneity has some
10 II, 4 | definite cause, e.g. coming "by chance" into the market and finding
11 II, 4 | Similarly in other cases of chance it is always possible, they
12 II, 4 | which is the cause; but not chance, for if chance were real,
13 II, 4 | but not chance, for if chance were real, it would seem
14 II, 4 | and decay took account of chance; whence it would seem that
15 II, 4 | believe that anything is by chance. But there is a further
16 II, 4 | both come to be and are by chance and spontaneity, and although
17 II, 4 | argument said which denied chance), nevertheless they speak
18 II, 4 | these things as happening by chance and others not. For this
19 II, 4 | physicists found no place for chance among the causes which they
20 II, 4 | there is no such thing as chance or whether they thought
21 II, 4 | highest region, but "as it may chance". At any rate he says in
22 II, 4 | of animals came to be by chance.~There are some too who
23 II, 4 | they are asserting that chance is not responsible for the
24 II, 4 | them (for it is not any chance thing that comes from a
25 II, 4 | heavens, but much happening by chance among the things which as
26 II, 4 | they say are not due to chance; whereas we should have
27 II, 4 | who, indeed, believe that chance is a cause, but that it
28 II, 4 | Thus we must inquire what chance and spontaneity are, whether
29 II, 5 | of neither of these that chance is said to be the cause,
30 II, 5 | nor can the "effect of chance" be identified with any
31 II, 5 | two-events which all say are "by chance"-it is plain that there
32 II, 5 | there is such a thing as chance and spontaneity; for we
33 II, 5 | of this kind are due to chance and that things due to chance
34 II, 5 | chance and that things due to chance are of this kind.~But, secondly,
35 II, 5 | incidental are said to be "by chance". For just as a thing is
36 II, 5 | to be spontaneous or by chance. (The distinction between
37 II, 5 | is said to have gone "by chance". If he had gone of deliberate
38 II, 5 | be said to have gone "by chance".~It is clear then that
39 II, 5 | It is clear then that chance is an incidental cause in
40 II, 5 | Intelligent reflection, then, and chance are in the same sphere,
41 II, 5 | of what comes to pass by chance be indefinite; and that
42 II, 5 | indefinite; and that is why chance is supposed to belong to
43 II, 5 | a way, nothing occurs by chance. For all these statements
44 II, 5 | Things do, in a way, occur by chance, for they occur incidentally
45 II, 5 | they occur incidentally and chance is an incidental cause.
46 II, 5 | spectacle. Thus to say that chance is a thing contrary to rule
47 II, 5 | for the most part, whereas chance belongs to a third type
48 II, 5 | this kind are indefinite, chance too is indefinite. (Yet
49 II, 5 | might be the cause of the chance occurrence, e.g. of health
50 II, 5 | the effect than others.)~Chance or fortune is called "good"
51 II, 5 | regarded as unstable; for chance is unstable, as none of
52 II, 5 | incidental causes-both chance and spontaneity-in the sphere
53 II, 6 | wider term. Every result of chance is from what is spontaneous,
54 II, 6 | what is spontaneous is from chance.~Chance and what results
55 II, 6 | spontaneous is from chance.~Chance and what results from chance
56 II, 6 | Chance and what results from chance are appropriate to agents
57 II, 6 | generally. Therefore necessarily chance is in the sphere of moral
58 II, 6 | action cannot do anything by chance. Thus an inanimate thing
59 II, 6 | child cannot do anything by chance, because it is incapable
60 II, 6 | in a way be affected by chance, when one who is dealing
61 II, 6 | does something to them by chance, but not otherwise.~The
62 II, 6 | events are said to be "from chance" if they have the further
63 II, 6 | spontaneity and what results by chance is greatest in things that
64 II, 6 | say that it came to be by chance, but by spontaneity. Yet
65 II, 6 | have now explained what chance is and what spontaneity
66 II, 6 | infinite.~Spontaneity and chance are causes of effects which
67 II, 6 | per se. Spontaneity and chance, therefore, are posterior
68 II, 8 | not one of the results of chance or spontaneity is this true.
69 II, 8 | true. We do not ascribe to chance or mere coincidence the
70 II, 8 | every principle; nor any chance completion, but always the
71 II, 8 | towards it may come about by chance. We say, for instance, that
72 II, 8 | that a stranger has come by chance, paid the ransom, and gone
73 II, 8 | This is incidental, for chance is an incidental cause,
74 II, 8 | is not incidental or by chance. In natural products the
75 IV, 1 | itself. It is not every chance direction which is "up",
76 IV, 1 | too, "down" is not any chance direction but where what
77 IV, 4 | falls in whichever it may chance to be.~If there were an
78 IV, 5 | place is any body which may chance to be there, not an interval
79 IV, 10| which moves or changes may chance to be. But time is present
80 VIII, 4| kind of motion that it may chance to be suffering and the
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