Fate vs Probability - What's the difference?
fate | probability |
The presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events.
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The effect, consequence, outcome, or inevitable events predetermined by this cause.
Destiny; often with a connotation of death, ruin, misfortune, etc.
(lb) (one of the goddesses said to control the destiny of human beings).
To foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.
* 2011 , James Al-Shamma, Sarah Ruhl: A Critical Study of the Plays (page 119)
the state of being probable; likelihood
an event that is likely to occur
the relative likelihood of an event happening
(mathematics) a number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening
As nouns the difference between fate and probability
is that fate is the presumed cause, force, principle, or divine will that predetermines events while probability is the state of being probable; likelihood.As a verb fate
is to foreordain or predetermine, to make inevitable.As a proper noun Fate
is any one of the Fates.fate
English
(wikipedia fate)Noun
- Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate' which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that ' fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Synonyms
* destiny * doom * fortune * kismet * lot * necessity * orlay * predestination * wyrdAntonyms
* choice * free will * freedomDerived terms
* fatal * fatalism * fatality * tempt fateSee also
* determinism * indeterminismVerb
(fat)- The oracle's prediction fated Oedipus to kill his father; not all his striving could change what would occur.
- At the conclusion of this part, Eric, who plays Jesus and is now a soldier, captures Violet in the forest, fating her to a concentration camp.