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At its heart, yes. But that is also one of the basic tenets of probability theory in general, since the very beginnings. Called the law of large numbers. Monte Carlo usually refers to situations where "trying something a bunch of times" is not a straight forward procedure, because some "somethings" are more interesting than others and there is also a question of how large the "bunch" of times should be to see the true picture.