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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. | |
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