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 XVI.

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APPLICATION OF PROBABILITY TO TESTIMONY.

§§ 1, 2. Doubtful applicability of Probability to testimony. 3. Conditions of such applicability. 4. Reasons for the above conditions. 5, 6. Are these conditions fulfilled in the case of testimony? 7. The appeal here is not directly to statistics. 8, 9. Illustrations of the above. 10, 11. Is any application of Probability to testimony valid?