46

90

Or they may be arranged in two series so as to
follow in different proportions in the two sequences
2 3 6 11 12 15 20 21 24 29 30 33 . . .
1 4 5 7 8 9 10 13 14 16 17 18 19 22 24 26 27 28 29
A finite ratio of a denumeral collection only
acquires a meaning when that collection has
a fixed serial order. That amounts to saying
that chance only relates to the order of experience
or order of existential succession. What is
called “geometrical probability” is not properly
probability at all, unless it receives specifications
not germane to the real problem, so as to
put it into the guise of probability. Chance, then,
in the sense in which the doctrine of chances studies it
consists in a statistical law and no other law
governing the succession of a species of events
in the endless future.

Generally, in all its meanings, chance
refers to variety, in contradistinction to uniformity.
We call a fact accidental, if