> There's a little bit about how chance can exist in determinism that is little more than sophistry, imo. I read that bit as a really good answer to a question

> There's a little bit about how chance can exist in determinism that is little more than sophistry, imo. I read that bit as a really good answer to a question famously posed by Knuth: 7 is a random number iff the reasons it isn't 8 are beyond anyone's control.