The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition
- Subtitle
- An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics
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1. Front matter2. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.3. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.4. PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.5. Introductory material6. PART I.7. CHAPTER I.8. CHAPTER II.9. CHAPTER III.10. CHAPTER IV.11. CHAPTER V.12. PART II.13. CHAPTER VI.14. CHAPTER VII.15. CHAPTER VIII.16. CHAPTER IX.17. CHAPTER X.18. CHAPTER XI.19. CHAPTER XII.20. CHAPTER XIII.21. CHAPTER XIV.22. PART III.23. CHAPTER XV.24. CHAPTER XVI.25. CHAPTER XVII.26. CHAPTER XVIII.27. CHAPTER XIX.28. CHAPTER I. ON CERTAIN KINDS OF GROUPS OR SERIES AS THE FOUNDATION OF PROBABILITY.29. CHAPTER II. FURTHER DISCUSSION UPON THE NATURE OF THE SERIES MENTIONED IN THE LAST CHAPTER.30. CHAPTER III. ON THE CAUSAL PROCESS BY WHICH THE GROUPS OR SERIES OF PROBABILITY ARE BROUGHT ABOUT.31. CHAPTER IV. ON THE MODES OF ESTABLISHING AND DETERMINING THE EXISTENCE AND NUMERICAL PROPORTIONS OF THE CHARACTERISTIC PROPERTIES OF OUR SERIES OR GROUPS.32. CHAPTER V. THE CONCEPTION RANDOMNESS AND ITS SCIENTIFIC TREATMENT.33. CHAPTER VI.[*] THE SUBJECTIVE SIDE OF PROBABILITY. MEASUREMENT OF BELIEF.34. CHAPTER VII. THE RULES OF INFERENCE IN PROBABILITY.35. CHAPTER VIII. THE RULE OF SUCCESSION.[*]36. CHAPTER IX. INDUCTION AND ITS CONNECTION WITH PROBABILITY.37. CHAPTER X. CHANCE AS OPPOSED TO CAUSATION AND DESIGN.38. NOTE ON THE PROPORTIONS OF THE SEXES.39. CHAPTER XI. ON CERTAIN CONSEQUENCES OF THE OBJECTIVE TREATMENT OF A SCIENCE OF INFERENCE.[*]40. CHAPTER XII. CONSEQUENCES OF THE FOREGOING DISTINCTIONS.41. CHAPTER XIII. ON THE CONCEPTION AND TREATMENT OF MODALITY.42. CHAPTER XIV. FALLACIES.43. CHAPTER XV. INSURANCE AND GAMBLING.44. CHAPTER XVI. THE APPLICATION OF PROBABILITY TO TESTIMONY.45. CHAPTER XVII. ON THE CREDIBILITY OF EXTRAORDINARY STORIES.46. CHAPTER XVIII. THE NATURE AND USE OF AN AVERAGE, AND ON THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF AVERAGE.[*]47. CHAPTER XIX. THE THEORY OF THE AVERAGE AS A MEANS OF APPROXIMATION TO THE TRUTH.48. INDEX.