Mifcettanea Curiofa. % 

 Corollary. 



Hence it follows, that if a fmgle Witnefs 

 mould be only fo far Credible, as to give me 

 the Half of a full Certainty •, the Second of the 

 fame Credibility, would (joined with the firft) 

 give me %ths\ a Third, %ths 7 &c. So that the 

 Coatteftation ofa Tenth,would give me \\\\ths 

 of Certainty ; and the Coatteftation of aTwen- 

 tieth, {o5To ? 'l or above Two Millions to one, 

 &c. 



PROP. III. 



Concerning the Credit of a Reporter for a Particu- 

 lar Article of that Narrative, for the whole of 

 which he is Credible in a certain Degree. 



Let there be Six Particulars of a Narrative 

 equally remarkable : If he to whom the Report 

 is given, has ~ths of Certainty for the whole, 

 or Summ, of them ; he has 35 to one, againft; 

 the Failure in any One certain Particular. 



For he has Five to One, there will be no 

 Failure at all. And if there be, he has yet a- 

 nother Five to One, that it falls not upon that 

 lingle Particular of the Six. That is, he has 

 iths of Certainty for the whole : and of the yh 

 wanting, he has likewife \th$, or ^ths of the 

 whole more \ and thereforethat there will be 

 no Failure in that lingle Particular, he has 

 iths and j$tM of Certainty, or |$ of it. 



In GeneraLif be the Proportion of Cer- 



tainty for the whole ; and — — £, e t he chance 



of the reft of the particular Articles m 7 againft 

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