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Thus the three go on playing, each one as soon
as he has made his absolutely certain
net gain of a dollar, yielding his seat
to the third; and so they keep on for all
eternity, every man winning his dollar
at every sitting, which dollar is paid in solid
cash though the credit is unlimited while
the sitting lasts.

I have known persons to find little
conundrums similar to this quite puzzling.

Hume applies the doctrine of chances to
disprove miracles. Now a miracle
would not be a miracle if it were not
entirely out of the ordinary course
of nature, or what would be the course of