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Luck

The Brilliant Randomness Of Everyday Life

By: Nicholas Rescher

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Paperback | 15 March 2001

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Luck touches us all. "Why me?" we complain when things go wrong--though seldom when things go right. But although luck has a firm hold on all our lives, we seldom reflect on it in a cogent, concerted way.

In "Luck," one of our most eminent philosophers offers a realistic view of the nature and operation of luck to help us come to sensible terms with life in a chaotic world. Differentiating luck from fate (inexorable destiny) and fortune (mere chance), Nicholas Rescher weaves a colorful tapestry of historical examples, from the use of lots in the Old and New Testaments to Thomas Gataker's treatise of 1619 on the great English lottery of 1612, from casino gambling to playing the stock market. Because we are creatures of limited knowledge who do and must make decisions in the light of incomplete information, Rescher argues, we are inevitably at the mercy of luck. It behooves us to learn more about it.

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"Mr. Rescher is surely on to something: what could be more fascinating--and yet so little understood--than luck? . . . Using the tools of conceptual analysis and explanation, Mr. Rescher clarifies a great deal about the baffling phenomenon, all the while insuring that we do not forget the utter randomness and unpredictability of luck's superb surprise." --New York Times Book Review

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Mathematics Probability & Statistics

Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Enigmas of Chance	p. 19
Failures of Foresight	p. 41
The Different Faces of Luck	p. 69
An Infinity of Accidents	p. 87
Visions of Sugarplums	p. 102
The Philosophers of Gambling	p. 115
The Musings of Moralists	p. 140
Can the Tiger Be Tamed?	p. 172
Life in a Halfway House	p. 189
Appendix: Taking Luck's Measure	p. 211
Notes	p. 213
Name Index	p. 233
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