CHAPTER IX.

INDUCTION.

§§ 1-5. Statement of the Inductive problem, and origin of the Inductive inference. 6. Relation of Probability to Induction. 7-9. The two are sometimes merged into one. 10. Extent to which causation is needed in Probability. 11-13. Difficulty of referring an individual to a class: 14. This difficulty but slight in Logic, 15, 16. But leads to perplexity in Probability: 17-21. Mild form of this perplexity; 22, 23. Serious form. 24-27. Illustration from Life Insurance. 28, 29. Meaning of 'the value of a life'. 30, 31. Successive specialization of the classes to which objects are referred. 32. Summary of results.