We call chance to that combination of unforeseeable and unavoidable circumstances, which are difficult to anticipate and prevent from happening and which ends up producing an event or situations that were not expected or had been planned; Some may have a super positive consequence, that is to say, be pleasant surprises and generate substantial changes in those who live it, despite not expecting them, while there are others that, on the contrary, can be experienced as absolutely negative and, for example, generate consequences for nothing beautiful.
Circumstances that are not expected or can not be avoided and that combine to produce events that were not expected in any way or have a logical explanation
Then, everything that happens by chance will be characterized by its unpredictability and in no way can it be circumvented or avoided, no one can twist the hand of chance we could affirm. "I was walking and by chance I ran into a former classmate from elementary school, we couldn't believe it. My sister and her husband were robbed at the door of their house, by chance, the thieves did not surprise us too, since we arrived in five minutes.”
Chance will always imply obtaining something without a cause that produces it, that is, it happens just because, without logical or rational explanation, and it usually generates coincidences or even important discoveries, that is, I was doing this or that thing and suddenly I came across something unknown and unexpected.
For example, I was going to my yoga class and I meet my best friend's husband with another woman; doing my yoga routine, I stumbled upon that unexpected fact
Many discoveries that have occurred throughout the history of mankind arrived in this way by chance, without looking for them some, or going in search of other questions, and suddenly the appearance of an unexpected discovery was surprised.
Opposing positions in the face of coincidences
There are important controversies as to whether or not chance exists; There are those who firmly maintain that they are, and for example, if they are walking, they stumble and when they fall to the ground they find themselves on the ground with a wad of money, they will blame it on chance and the good fortune that always accompanies them.
Meanwhile, those who do not believe in it, maintain that it is simply temporal and spatial coincidences, attributing a clear rational explanation to the casual situation.
Or there is also another position among those who do not believe in chance and attribute it to a plan devised by supernatural forces that is popularly called destiny.
Now, and without a doubt, beyond any position on this issue there is a quota of mystery around the coincidence that makes it interesting and that obviously when it appears to us will immediately make our imagination fly and the reason to find some explanation, but of course, it could be that we will never find it, it depends on the position we take in front of it.
In the field of knowledge, chance tends to represent a problem many times because of course, the theory is based on concrete studies that allow us to affirm something, although of course, many times what is expected to happen, happens differently than was planned.
It should be noted that for mathematics, chance is associated with the randomness; Randomness is a process whose result is not predictable, since chance intervenes in it, then, this implies that the result of a random event cannot be known before it actually occurs.
It is plausible to speak in terms of probabilities from statistics
Luck, contingency, unforeseen, eventuality, fluke, accident and chance are some terms associated with the concept of chance and that are usually used as synonyms for it.
Instead, fatality, safety and foresight they are directly opposed to chance.
