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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive

Of The Grounds Of Disbelief.

Project Gutenberg EPUB3 edition Mill, John Stuart
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It appears to me, therefore, that Laplace’s doctrine is not strictly true of any coincidences, and is wholly inapplicable to most; and that to know whether a coincidence does or does not require more evidence to render it credible than an ordinary event, we must refer, in every instance, to first principles, and estimate afresh what is the probability that the given testimony would have been delivered in that instance, supposing the fact which it asserts not to be true.
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With these remarks we close the discussion of the Grounds of Disbelief; and along with it, such exposition as space admits, and as the writer has it in his power to furnish, of the Logic of Induction.

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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Project Gutenberg eBook #27942

Of The Remaining Laws Of Nature. Of Operations Subsidiary To Induction.