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it is not governed by a specified or well-understood
general formula or other general idea,
such as a general intention. But
it would be an excellent practice to restrict
the expression “happening by chance” to
meaning happening so in a series of
experiences, which series must be distinctly
specified to give the phrase any
meaning, that the fact is not governed by any
order of succession that holds
in the long run, no matter whether it be
intended, or otherwise necessitated, or not.

If what is called a chance distribution or a distribution
according to the probability curve is such
a distribution of the quality Q among a set
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