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Contents.
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CHAPTER VIII.
THE RULE OF SUCCESSION.
§ 1. Reasons for desiring some such rule:
2. Though it could scarcely belong to Probability.
3. Distinction between Probability and Induction.
4, 5. Impossibility of reducing the various rules of the latter under one head.
6. Statement of the Rule of Succession;
7. Proof offered for it.
8. Is it a strict rule of inference?
9. Or is it a psychological principle?
CHAPTER IX.
INDUCTION.
§§ 1—5. Statement of the Inductive problem, and origin of the Inductive inference.
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.