The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition / 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

LOGICAL SUPERSTRUCTURE ON THE ABOVE PHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS. Chh. VI–XIV.

[CHAPTER VI.]

MEASUREMENT OF BELIEF.

§§ 1, 2. Preliminary remarks.

3, 4. Are we accurately conscious of gradations of belief?

5. Probability only concerned with part of this enquiry.

6. Difficulty of measuring our belief;

7. Owing to intrusion of emotions,

8. And complexity of the evidence.

9. And when measured, is it always correct?