(09-25-2018, 07:03 AM)Shannon Wrote: 1. After all the research and experimentation I have done, I no longer believe in "luck" as it is defined by the majority of people. I believe that everything happens for a reason, and it only appears to be luck because we cannot see all of what caused it.
This actually reminds me a lot of how I see hope: As the inarticulate feeling that, because we don't see/know all of our present and future choices/options (we're not omniscient or omnivalent), we can't know that something is hopeless. I see hope as understanding that the lack of visible options is not the same as lack of options, as visibility can come with time/effort and with intermediate choices, actions, and events.
It's also why I take strong issue with the Doyle/Sherlock quote "when you've eliminated the impossible..." as it disregards the inability of the detective to know all of what's possible. This is actually known as a Holmesian fallacy: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Holmesian_fallacy
