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A re-examination of the textual evidence supports the idea that Anaxagoras was in fact the inventor of the conception of probability as ‘the chance of an event’s occurring’. His cosmogony, therefore, does not clearly violate the principle of sufficient reason because the initial cosmic event was in effect bound, sooner or later, to happen to occur.
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A re-examination of the textual evidence supports the idea that Anaxagoras was in fact the inventor of the conception of probability as ‘the chance of an event’s occurring’. His cosmogony, therefore, does not clearly violate the principle of sufficient reason because the initial cosmic event was in effect bound, sooner or later, to happen to occur.
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Event (particle physics)CosmogonyEpistemologyPhilosophyLiteraturePhysicsArtAstrophysics
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