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might be something in astrology, palmistry, and the like nonsense. Idle doubts could only be set to rest by some such unreasonable maxim as De minimis non curat lex rationis.
It will be observed that this weakest of all possible arguments is the only defence of an absolute disbelief against miracles. For quantitative induction can only conclude that the probability of them is very near zero. Now were that probability exactly zero, there might still be a finite or even an infinite number of miraculous occurrences in the endless series of all occurrences. The conclusion of qualitative induction could not
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