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Contents.
| CHAPTER X. | ||
| CHANCE, CAUSATION AND DESIGN. | ||
| § 1. | Old Theological objection to Chance. | |
| 2—4. | Scientific version of the same. | |
| 5. | Statistics in reference to Free-will. | |
| 6—8. | Inconclusiveness of the common arguments here. | |
| 9, 10. | Chance as opposed to Physical Causation. | |
| 11. | Chance as opposed to Design in the case of numerical constants. | |
| 12—14. | Theoretic solution between Chance and Design. | |
| 15. | Illustration from the dimensions of the Pyramid. | |
| 16, 17. | Discussion of certain difficulties here. | |
| 18, 19. | Illustration from Psychical Phenomena. | |
| 20. | Arbuthnott's Problem of the proportion of the sexes. | |
| 21—23. | Random or designed distribution of the stars. | |
| (Note on the proportion of the sexes.) | ||
| CHAPTER XI. | ||
| MATERIAL AND FORMAL LOGIC. | ||
| § 1, 2. | Broad distinction between these views; | |
| 2, 3. | Difficulty of adhering consistently to the objective view; | |
| 4. | Especially in the case of Hypotheses. | |
| 5. | The doubtful stage of our facts is only occasional in Inductive Logic. | |
| 6—9. | But normal and permanent in Probability. | |
| 10, 11. | Consequent difficulty of avoiding Conceptualist phraseology. | |
| CHAPTER XII. | ||
| CONSEQUENCES OF THE DISTINCTIONS OF THE PREVIOUS CHAPTER. | ||
| §§ 1, 2. | Probability has no relation to time. | |
| 3, 4. | Butler and Mill on Probability before and after the event. | |
