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

December, 1887.

[1] I have indicated the new chapters and sections by printing them in italics in the Table of Contents.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.[*]

* Chapters and sections which are nearly or entirely new are printed in italics.

PART I.

PHYSICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE SCIENCE OF PROBABILITY. Chh. I–V.

[CHAPTER I.]

THE SERIES OF PROBABILITY.

§§ 1, 2. Distinction between the proportional propositions of Probability, and the propositions of Logic.

3, 4. The former are best regarded as presenting a series of individuals,