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power, one can to some extent comprehend, or at least one 

 may understand what is being talked about, but the infi 

 nite seems to me a term devoid of meaning. So of anything 

 supposed to have been produced at random : tell us the 

 nature of the agency, the limits of its randomness and so on, 

 and we can venture upon the problem, but without such data 

 we know not what to do. The further consideration of such 

 a problem might, I think, without arrogance be relegated to 

 the Chapter on Fallacies. Accordingly any further remarks 

 which I have to make upon the subject will be found there, 

 and at the conclusion of the chapter on Causation and 

 Design. 



