THE
LOGIC OF CHANCE
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,
BY
JOHN VENN, Sc.D., F.R.S.,
FELLOW AND LECTURER IN THE MORAL SCIENCES, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE,
CAMBRIDGE.
LATE EXAMINER IN LOGIC AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.
“So careful of the type she seems
So careless of the single life.”
THIRD EDITION, RE-WRITTEN AND ENLARGED.
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1888
[All Rights reserved.]
First Edition printed 1866.
Second Edition 1876.
Third Edition 1888.