THE

LOGIC OF CHANCE

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,

BY

JOHN VENN, Sc.D., F.R.S.,

FELLOW AND LECTURER IN THE MORAL SCIENCES, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

LATE EXAMINER IN LOGIC AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON.

THIRD EDITION, RE-WRITTEN AND ENLARGED.

London:
MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1888

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