CHAPTER XXV

. _Of the Grounds of Disbelief._

§ 1. Improbability and impossibility 161

2. Examination of Hume's doctrine of miracles 162

3. The degrees of improbability correspond to differences in the nature of the generalization with which an assertion conflicts 166

4. A fact is not incredible because the chances are against it 170

5. Are coincidences less credible than other facts? 172

6. An opinion of Laplace examined 175

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