3. For a slightly different translation, see Denis Diderot, Jacques the Fatalist and His Master, tr. with an Introduction and Notes by J. Robert Loy (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co, rev. ed., 1978), 11. As Thomas Kavanagh has it: “For Jacques, reason and fantasy, the tactical corollaries of a belief in determinism on the one hand and a resignation to chance on the other, become one and the same.” See his Enlightenment and the Shadows of Chance: The Novel and the Culture of Gambling in Eighteenth-Century France (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), 231.