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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

John Venn

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 436 pages

The Logic of Chance is John Venn's philosophical essay on the foundations of probability, its logical bearings, and its use in moral and social science and statistics. Written for general readers rather than mathematicians, it invites listeners to reflect on what chance and probability really mean.

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Opening of the book

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, Sŕ.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.

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Contents

  1. PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.
  2. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
  3. PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.
  4. TABLE OF CONTENTS.[*]
  5. THE LOGIC OF CHANCE. CHAPTER I.
  6. CHAPTER II.
  7. CHAPTER III.
  8. CHAPTER IV.
  9. CHAPTER V.
  10. CHAPTER VI.[*]
  11. CHAPTER VII.
  12. CHAPTER VIII.
  13. CHAPTER IX.
  14. CHAPTER X.
  15. CHAPTER XI.
  16. CHAPTER XII.
  17. CHAPTER XIII.
  18. CHAPTER XIV.
  19. CHAPTER XV.
  20. CHAPTER XVI.
  21. CHAPTER XVII.
  22. CHAPTER XVIII.
  23. CHAPTER XIX.
  24. INDEX.

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