Steve Greenleaf

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Probability, in this sense, belongs to premises, not arguments, and there is not much in the body of the Topics about probable arguments. Almost the only arguments discussed are from analogy, or similarities: “It is an accepted principle that what holds good of one of several similars, holds good for the rest.”
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
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