Contents. xxiii 



CHAPTER VIII. 



THE RULE OF SUCCESSION. 



Eeasons for desiring some such rule : 



Though it could scarcely belong to Probability. 



Distinction between Probability and Induction. -/(&amp;lt;- 



Impossibility of reducing the various rules of the latter under one 



head. 

 (5. Statement of the Rule of Succession ; 



7. Proof offered for it. 



8. Is it a strict rule of inference? 



9. Or is it a psychological principle ? 



CHAPTER IX. 



INDUCTION. 



} 15. Statement of the Inductive problem, and origin of the Inductive 



inference. 

 6. Eelation of Probability to Induction. 



7 9. The two are sometimes merged into one. 



10. Extent to which causation is needed in Probability. 

 11 13. Difficulty of referring an individual to a class : 



14. This difficulty but slight in Logic, 



15, 16. But leads to perplexity in Probability : 

 17 21.IVlild form of this perplexity; 



22, 23. Serious form. 



2427. Illustration from Life Insurance. 



28. 29. Meaning of the value of a life . 



30, 31. Successive specialization of the classes to which objects are 



referred. 

 32. Summary of results. 



