Prawdopodobnie wprowadził angielski jako termin hazardowy, a kontekst hazardu pozostaje wykrywalny w konotacjach tego słowa; szczęście jest sposobem na zrozumienie osobistego przypadku. Szczęście ma trzy aspektyRescher, N., Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life p. 32. „Luck accordingly involves three things: (1) a beneficiary or maleficiary, (2) a development that is benign (positive) or malign (negative) from the stand point of the interests of the affected individual, and that, moreover, (3) is fortuitous (unexpected, chancy, unforeseeable.)”.CHANCE News 4.15 ...the definition in the Oxford English dictionary: „the fortuitous happening of an event favorable or unfavorable to the interest of a person”.Rescher, N., Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life p. 28. „Luck is a matter of having something good or bad happen that lies outside the horizon of effective foreseeability.”.: