Part 2 — CHAPTER VII.
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CHAPTER VII.
THE RULES OF INFERENCE IN PROBABILITY.
§ 1. Nature of these inferences.
2. Inferences by addition and subtraction.
3. Inferences by multiplication and division.
4–6. Rule for independent events.
7. Other rules sometimes introduced.
8. All the above rules may be interpreted subjectively, i.e.
9–11. Rules of so-called Inverse Probability.
12, 13. Nature of the assumption involved in them:
14–16. Arbitrary character of this assumption.
17, 18. Physical illustrations.