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are not led to view as compounded. They
further say that these happening are
equally possible, “également possible”
is the phrase which Laplace introduces
at the beginning of his book, without
telling us what scintilla of meaning can
be attached to it. Certainly anybody talking
French would say they were également
possible,— that is, one as truly possible
as another. But également, in that
sense, is not an expression of quantity.
But Laplace always proceeds as if
events which are également possible and
which are also simple events, were equally
probable, which if equally probable means equally