So the details of the chance-possibility connection could turn out very differently while still endorsing the broad thrust of the BCP.
These cases show that chance and possibility come apart there are cases where there are two possible outcomes of a process, neither of which has any chance at all (not even a chance of zero).
For this preternaturally resourceful artist, there have always been unknowns that allowed him a chance -- the possibility that an improvised technique could circumvent what doctors called a career-ending injury to his finger, or the possibility that a virtuosic performance could warm a theater full of angry Soviet citizens to an American.
They talk of desire, chance, the possibility of happiness — nothing as elegantly brusque has been heard in cinema in the last thirty years.
Jockeys are not allowed to bet, but in the squall of chance and possibility that is a horse race, they will gamble every day.
Many of the deepest intellectual commitments of Western culture regarding the character of matter, the nature of space and time, the question of determinism, the meaning of probability and chance, the possibility of knowledge, and much else besides have been vividly challenged since the inception of modern science, beginning with the work of Galileo (1564 1642).
Again, in accepting the connection between chance and possibility expressed by the BCP, we needn't endorse this precise formulation.
In either case, both formal principles give content to the intuitively plausible idea that chances should guide reasonable credence.[1] But one needn't accept precisely this version of the BCP to endorse the general thesis that chance and possibility must be linked for other versions of this kind of claim, see Mellor (2000); Eagle (2011) and the 'realization principle' of Schaffer (2007: 124).
That is what is fundamentally compelling about a game of chance: the possibility of getting lucky, of proving to yourself that you are, in fact, blessed by fate.
It also chanced the possibility that B.C.S. voters would not see games as important as Saturday's and give the winner the boost in the rankings that it deserves.
In my understanding, Bourdieu suggested that those lacking symbolic power believe that they have the same chances and possibilities as everybody else and thus attribute failure in education to their own abilities without recognizing the inequalities built into the structure of the system.
