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which Mr. Henry Rother James translate in 24 that imitate the swing of the original very well, but miss the point.
By a geographical fiction Boethus represents that the Tugrus and the Euphrates floor from a common lake.
Now suppose a boat to be wrecked in that lake and one part of it is carried down the Tigris the other part down the Euphrates and where these rivers after being seperate for hundred of miles flow together again, these two parts of the boats are dashed against one another.
There is a fortuitous event if there ever was one; and yet says Boethus the currents forced them to move just as they did so that there was no chance about it.
True the existential events were governed by law.
But when we speak of chance it is a question of cause.
Now it is the ineluctable blunder of nomilalist, as Boethus was, to talk of the cause of an event.
But it is not an existential event that has a cause.
It is the fact, which is the