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Contents.
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| §9. | Evidence of actual experience. | |
| 10, 11. | Further examination of the causes. | |
| 12, 13. | Distinction between the succession of physical events and the Doctrine of Combinations. | |
| 14, 15. | Remarks of Laplace on this subject. | |
| 16. | Bernoulli's Theorem; | |
| 17, 18. | Its inapplicability to social phenomena. | |
| 19. | Summation of preceding results. | |
| CHAPTER V. | ||
| THE CONCEPTION OF RANDOMNESS. | ||
| § 1. | General Indication. | |
| 2—5. | The postulate of ultimate uniform distribution at one stage or another. | |
| 6. | This area of distribution must be finite: | |
| 7, 8. | Geometrical illustrations in support: | |
| 9. | Can we conceive any exception here? | |
| 10, 11. | Experimental determination of the random character when the events are many: | |
| 12. | Corresponding determination when they are few. | |
| 13, 14. | Illustration from the constant π. | |
| 15, 16. | Conception of a line drawn at random. | |
| 17. | Graphical illustration. | |
| PART II. | ||
| LOGICAL SUPERSTRUCTURE ON THE ABOVE PHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS. Chh. VI—XIV. | ||
| CHAPTER VI. | ||
| MEASUREMENT OF BELIEF. | ||
| §§ 1, 2. | Preliminary remarks. | |
| 3, 4. | Are we accurately conscious of gradations of belief?
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