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coincidence

correlation

causation

is a convergence of several elements: Agent(s) and/or object(s), time and/or space.

A convergence of several elements: agent(s) and/or object(s), time and/or space' (Yacobi 1991, 464)

is a convergence through contiguity or similarity of causally unconnected events.

a convergence through contiguity or similarity of causally unconnected events' (Hannay 1988, 89)

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is a great stumbling blocks in the way of thinkers who know nothing about probability.

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilitiesthat theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration. Edgar Allan Poe

is a lawful recurrence of the same or similar things and events a recurrence, or clustering, in time or space, whereby the individual members in sequence as far as can be ascertained by careful analysis are not connected by the same active cause.

Kammerer defines coincidence aS a lawful recurrence of the same or similar things and events a recurrence, or clustering, in time or space, whereby the individual members in sequence as far as can be ascertained by careful analysis are not connected by the same active cause.

is a piece of design for which we can find no practical use.

a piece of design for which we can find no practical use.

is associated with an element of surprise or astonishment that derives from the lack of apparent causal connection.

But coincidence in its common and most important literary use carried with it an element of surprise or astonishment that derives from the lack of apparent causal connection . . . [C]oincidence is not necessarily a failure in realism or (as is sometimes implied) a cheap way out of difficulties in plot and structure though of course it can be both in a bad novel. Instead, coincidence is a symbol of providence' (Vargish 1985, 7, 9).

is merely the concurrence or juxtaposition in time and space of two or more events or circumstances.

Vargish defines 'coincidence in its basic meaning merely the concurrence or juxtaposition in time and space of two or more events or circumstances' (1985, 7)

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