The Logic of Chance, 3rd edition An Essay on the Foundations and Province of the Theory of Probability, With Especial Reference to Its Logical Bearings and Its Application to Moral and Social Science and to Statistics

CHAPTER X.

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CHANGE, CAUSATION AND DESIGN.

§ 1. Old Theological objection to Chance. 2-4. Scientific version of the same. 5. Statistics in reference to Free-will. 6-8. Inconclusiveness of the common arguments here. 9, 10. _Chance as opposed to Physical Causation._ 11. _Chance as opposed to Design in the case of numerical constants._ 12-14. _Theoretic solution between Chance and Design._ 15. _Illustration from the dimensions of the Pyramid._ 16, 17. _Discussion of certain difficulties here._ 18, 19. _Illustration from Psychical Phenomena._ 20. Arbuthnott's Problem of the proportion of the sexes. 21-23. Random or designed distribution of the stars.

(_Note on the proportion of the sexes_.)