The Chance Character of Human Existence [Book Review]

Review of Metaphysics 10 (1):173-173 (1956)
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An extended polemic, couched in familiar and fairly naive terms, against "faith, myth and superstition." Chance, the author argues, and the physical processes of which it is the dominant feature, form "the guiding principle for our lives."--V. C. C.

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