CHAPTER XX. Probability

PROBABILITY

§1. Meaning of Chance and Probability 310 §2. Probability as a fraction or proportion 312 §3. Probability depends upon experience and statistics 313 §4. It is a kind of Induction, and pre-supposes Causation 315 §5. Of Averages and the Law of Error 318 §6. Interpretation of probabilities 324 Personal Equation (p. 325); meaning of 'Expectation' (p. 325) §7. Rules of the combination of Probabilities 325 Detection of a hidden Cause (p. 326); oral tradition (p. 327); circumstantial and analogical evidence (p. 328)