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Conspectus of the Author’s Introduction · I. What is probable evidence?

II. The use and application of probabilities.

Shall not go further into the nature of probable evidence, nor inquire why likeness begets presumption and conviction; nor how far analogical reasoning can be reduced to a system; but shall only show how just and conclusive this mode of reasoning is.

III. The force of this use of Analogy.

IV. General scope of the book.