Tuah

Tuah merujuk kepada fenomena dan kepercayaan yang membentuk pendirian terhadap sesuatu peristiwa yang dialami sama ada ia positif, negatif, atau mustahil dijangka. Ia mempunyai tiga aspek:Rescher, 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."
 ia bersifat membawa untung (good luck) atau malang (bad luck).Rescher, N., Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life p. 32. "Luck thus always incorporates a normative element of good or bad: someone must be affected positively or negatively by an event before its realization can properly be called lucky."
 ia disebabkan nasib diri.Rescher, N., Luck: the brilliant randomness of everyday life p. 32. ..."that as a far as the affected person is concerned, the outcome came about "by accident." "
 ia terpakai pada suatu makhluk berakal.

Kepercayaan bahawa jalan kehidupan seseorang bergantung sepenuhnya kepada nasib bertuah atau malang seseorang ditolak oleh ajaran beberapa agama termasuk Islam dan Buddha.

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