Chance and Order:

Peter Hofstätter:

“The very fact that we are capable of purposeful action and rational thought can be traced back to living in a world whose events exhibit an order—different from mere chance—with respect to their spatial and temporal relations of proximity. Only in such a world are inferences of the form ‘if A, then B’ even possible. In the face of chaos, they would be nothing more than superstition …”