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Table of Contents

PART II.

6. Relation of Probability to Induction.

7–9. The two are sometimes merged into one.

10. Extent to which causation is needed in Probability.

11–13. Difficulty of referring an individual to a class:

14. This difficulty but slight in Logic,

15, 16. But leads to perplexity in Probability:

17–21. Mild form of this perplexity;

22, 23. Serious form.

24–27. Illustration from Life Insurance.

28, 29. Meaning of ‘the value of a life’.

30, 31. Successive specialization of the classes to which objects are referred.

32. Summary of results.

CHAPTER X.

CHANGE, 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.

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