“Though there be no such thing as Chance in the world; our ignorance of the real cause of any event has the same influence on the understanding, and begets a like species of belief or opinion”
Hume’s use of capitalization when regarding the term Chance to help distinguish his definition from any other definitions. He defines Chance with a capital C as the idea that events can happen randomly, without any sort of explainable cause, and this is where Hume begins to beg to differ. Hume’s belief is that Chance does not exist because people use the term when they feel there is an absence of cause. It is necessary to note that Hume believes that every effect can be derived to a cause, so no effect is ever actually arbitrary. Hume, having quite the