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in a few respects, and a great tendency among
diversities to grow into uniformities
are three real facts about objective characteristics of the universe.

I will now drop metaphysics and consider
the doctrine of chances. In order that
this doctrine should have any useful application,
it is necessary that we should
positively know a number of propositions
to be true. The matter by no means rests on
mere ignorance. Of course, the doctrine of chances supposes a
certain amount of ignorance, since it is a
method of attaining knowledge; and
every method of attaining knowledge must
suppose that the knowledge information it teaches us
how to obtain is not already in our possession.

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