Part 2 — CHAPTER IX.
Reading edition
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.