Contents. xxi 



/| 9. Evidence of actual experience. 

 10, 11. Further examination of the causes. 



12, 13. Distinction between the succession of physical events and the 

 Doctrine of Combinations. 



14, 15. Kemarks of Laplace on this subject. 



16. Bernoulli s Theorem ; 



17, 18. Its inapplicability to social phenomena. 

 19. Summation of preceding results. 



CHAPTER V. 



THE CONCEPTION OF RANDOMNESS. 



1. General Indication. 



25. The postulate of ultimate uniform distribution at one stage or 

 another. 



6. This area of distribution must be finite : 



7, 8. Geometrical illustrations in support : 



9. Can we conceive any exception here ? 



10, 11. Experimental determination of the random character when the 



events are many: 



12. Corresponding determination when they are few. 



13, 14. Illustration from the constant TT. 



15, 16. Conception of a line drawn at random. 

 17. Graphical illustration. 



PART II. 



LOGICAL SUPEKSTEUCTURE ON THE ABOVE PHYSICAL 

 FOUNDATIONS. CHH. VI XIV. 



CHAPTER VI. 



MEASUREMENT OF BELIEF. 



1, 2. Preliminary remarks. 



3, 4. Are we accurately conscious of gradations of belief? 



