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essentially concerned,) is used in various different senses, owing to the ambiguity of the word "probability"; and the writers of the mathematical treatises on the subject have not had sufficient power of logical analysis to found any useful theory upon it. To show how it was with Laplace, I quote the second paragraph of his general exposition:

"La probabilité est relative, en partie, à cette ignorance, et en partie, à nos connaissances. Nous savons que sur trois ou un plus grand nombre d'événemens, un seul doit exister; mais rien

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