THE THEORY OF THE AVERAGE AS A MEANS OF APPROXIMATION TO THE TRUTH.
INDEX.
Accidents 342
Airy, G. B. 447, 484
Anticipations, tacit 287
Arbuthnott 258
Aristotle 205, 307
Average arithmetical 437 geometrical 439 median 442 consequences of 482 necessary results of 457 uses of 439, 489
Babbage 343
Bags and balls 180, 411
Belief correctness of 125, 131, 178 gradations of 139 growth of 199 language of 143 measurement of 119, 125, 146 quantity of 133 test of 140, 149, 294 undue 129 vagueness of 127
Bentham 319, 323
Bernoulli 91, 117, 389
Bertillon 435
Births, male and female 90, 258, 263
Boat race, Oxford and Cambridge 339
Boole 183
Buckle 237
Buffon 153, 205, 352, 389
Burgersdyck 311
Butler 209, 281, 333, 366
Carlisle Tables 169
Casual, meaning of 245
Causation need of 237 proof of 244
Centre of gravity 467
Certainty, in Law 324 reasonable 327 hypothetical 210
Chance and Causation 244**** Creation 258 Design 256 Genius 353 neglect of small 363 selections 338