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2006-10-30 09:08:39 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I think coincidences are fate but fate isn't coincidence.
2006-10-30 09:10:24 · answer #1 · answered by DeborahDel 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The word "coincidence" simply means: "occurring at the same time", so it could be fate or not, theoretically. If you're asking whether fate causes coincidence, that is an unanswerable metaphysical question! No one can say for sure either way. If, by fate, you mean that saying people have, "everything happens for a reason", I don't believe in it. There is only coincidence and people read into it whatever they want to believe.
I believe in a combination of predestination and chaos, caused by a complex interaction of events leading to an inevitable result...AND the co-existence of free will (in humans anyway), which is part of the grand picture, but cannot alter the result of predetermined events. Some would call this fate, but that is too "loaded" a word, implying some sort of higher power or cosmic intervention.
I don't believe in those, for various reason, but again, have no more proof that they DON'T exist than those who say they DO.
2006-10-30 17:18:58 · answer #2 · answered by SieglindeDieNibelunge 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ok, well by definition, coincidence cannot be fate, because it is coincidence. Yes, fate would have to be fate, and coincidence coincidence...however, now you run into the problem of determining which is which...there is no way, and there would be a difference of opinion amongst people. What if you meet someone and you feel it is coincidence while the other person feels it is fate? How do you determine who is correct? This shows that most likely, it is EITHER coincidence or fate...and no one will ever know which really exists.
2006-10-30 17:12:38 · answer #3 · answered by terryandadriana 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
If coincidence is something happening at the same time or in the same incident then fate could have planned it to happen that way.
But if fate planned it, woul;d it still be coincidence or would it be determined? Perhaps it could be coincidence and determined at the same time.(I know it can be coincident and determined at the same time but that is not quite what we are talking about) Except coincidence presumably means without planning. So if fate plans then coincidence loses.
Now if fate planned it not to happen but yet it still happened it could be coincidence but not fate. But then would fate be fate? Well yes because fate still planned which is what fate does but coincidence won because it happened by chance.
So logically a coincidence could thereby happen by fate.
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2006-10-30 20:27:43 · answer #4 · answered by Iain C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it's all in how you label events. Coincidence or fate are just words that could be used to describe the same phenomenon. For instance, I've been noticing a lot of coincidences lately. Odd little things. Connections between things. But maybe they aren't coincidences. Maybe it's fate. Maybe it means something. Maybe when you open yourself up to the universe, amazing things happen & you start to realize the oneness of all things, a grand design... or maybe they're just weird little flukes. I believe that things have a meaning. I believe in fate. We don't just always recognize it.
2006-10-30 17:17:14 · answer #5 · answered by amp 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Fate happens only as a coincidence.
2006-10-30 17:13:49 · answer #6 · answered by Old Cripple 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
in my experience (practical and theoretical) there is no such thing as a coincidence because coincidences imply that the happening/s took place by accident and I believe that there are no accidents. However, I prefer to use the term synchronicty over coincidence because it implies that the happening took place on purpose. I also believe that synchronicity takes place when you are open and in tune with the universe. Fete is pre-determination, so with this in mind, to go back to your original question I would now word it as Q: can synchronicity happen by fate? A: If there are no such thing as accidents, absolutely. The latter part of the question wouldnt apply since they allow for accidents.
2006-10-30 17:56:02 · answer #7 · answered by dancing angel 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Coincidence: A striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance
Chance: the absence of any cause of events that can be predicted, understood, or controlled: often personified or treated as a positive agency:
Fate: the universal principle or ultimate agency by which the order of things is presumably prescribed; the decreed cause of events; time
As prescribed and predicted are synonyms, then fate rules out chance, and vice versa. Open a dictionary next time.
2006-10-30 17:12:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you go deep in the meaning of statement that there is no such a thing as coincidence then it will open totally different avenue to discover a value and may be (if lucky) to revitalize meaning and term "fate" by defining it differently.
2006-10-30 17:17:07 · answer #9 · answered by Oleg B 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
in my opinion, life is played out by fate, but co-incidences happen because we connect the simalrities and let them manifest in our minds.
i think they are both seperate ideas, which can both be used, however I believe that fate creates these so called coincidences, and seen as fate runs the world we live in, its a different thing to coincidence which in effect is created by the individuals brain.
2006-10-30 17:11:19 · answer #10 · answered by vampir2124 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋