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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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