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Chance - Randomness - le Hasard

Raoul — 7/29/2007 8:04:10 AM (archived)

The article being in french, where mainly the word "Hasard" was used, I indeed had a little trouble choosing the right translation in english for that word. It could be that randomness fits sometimes better than chance, or that no word is the perfect translation.

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What if Life owed everything to...chance? - Raoul - 7/28/2007 8:21:15 PM
- re: What if Life owed everything to...chance? - James Brown - 7/30/2007 6:17:32 AM
  - re: Meanings - Raoul - 7/30/2007 7:53:15 AM
    - re: Meanings - James Brown - 7/30/2007 3:53:23 PM
- re: What if Life owed everything to...chance? - It does and to some extent, thank goodness for that. (n/t) - Marcia - 7/29/2007 7:51:11 PM
- Order from Chaos? - folcwine - 7/29/2007 1:52:27 AM
  - The Law of Increasing Disorder - Hank - 7/29/2007 2:47:48 AM
    - Accellerating Disorder - nick hoffman - 7/29/2007 4:14:21 AM
      - re: Accellerating Disorder - Marcia - 7/29/2007 7:47:26 PM
        
        re: Accellerating Disorder - Marcia - 7/29/2007 7:54:23 PM
      - Entropic Bottlenecks - Hank - 7/29/2007 11:55:55 AM
      - Faster evolution - Raoul - 7/29/2007 8:24:49 AM
        
        re: Faster evolution. - Marcia - 7/29/2007 7:57:21 PM
        
        Life and evolution - Raoul - 7/29/2007 8:18:23 PM
        
        re: Life and evolution - Marcia - 7/30/2007 1:17:04 AM
    - Excellent Observation! I think you are correct. (n/t) - folcwine - 7/29/2007 3:25:26 AM
- Sartre surely saw and said this, existentially. - Hank - 7/28/2007 9:24:49 PM
- Confusing Chance with Novelty - Adam - 7/28/2007 8:59:59 PM
  - Chance - Randomness - le Hasard - Raoul - 7/29/2007 8:04:10 AM
  - Selection Process - Eri - 7/28/2007 10:53:17 PM

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