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III 32
Def Chance/Armstrong: = probability to t.
Ojective chance: property of having a certain chance (higher-level property).
Ramsey/Mellor pro,
Ramsey/MellorVsArmstrong: VsLaws of Nature as relation between universals.
ArmstrongVsVs: "objective chances" are ontologically questionable, universals avoid it. >Natural Laws/Armstrong, >Universals/Armstrong, >Laws/Armstrong.
III 34
Chance: logical possibility in re (instead determinist law: necessarily de re). - These forces must be understood as bare powers: their nature seems to exhaust itself in their manifestation. I.e. they cannot be understood a posteriori as the result of an empirical study, as a categorical structure S.

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