The human part of chance-discovery is usually analyzed as an
effect of the agent’s knowledge of herself and of her environment.
In this paper, setting off from the importance of “understanding
the meaning of an impending phenomenon as a
chance,” we will analyze how chance-discovery activities are
affected and driven by the agent’s ignorance, and the relationship
she entertains with the latter. More specifically, we will
spell out two kinds of ignorance that are relevant for chancediscovery,
also considering which abductive chance-discovery
processes they can be related to.
