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as to the nature of probability. LaPlace had founded his philosophy of the matter on a conception "des evenuments egalement possibles." Possibility admits no greater and no less but he used the phrase as it is still currently used for events that there is equal reason to think possible. Thus if we know a die is so loaded that one side will almost always turn up when it is thrown but have not the slightest idea which side that is throws that would turn up different sides are egalement possibles. LaPlace made the numberical probabilities of all events that are egalement possibles to be equal and he futher assumed that every contingency has for every state of our information a single unequivocal and ascertainable probability.