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But there must be some large class of objects,
say the As, which have already
presented themselves in experience and of
which we have reason to believe that many other
instances wil present themselves in future
experience. Now the As of which we have
had experience have some of them had
a certain quality, while others of them
have been without this quality. I shall say some As are Q and some are not Q, noting Q as an adjective expressive of that quality.
Since we
have experienced only a finite collection
of A's, it must be that there has been some
definite proportion of those As we have
experienced that have been Q
and we must have some good
reason for supposing that this same ratio

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But there must be some large class of objects,
say the As, which have already
presented themselves in experience and of
which we have reason to believe that many other
instances wil present themselves in future
experience. Now the As of which we have
had experience have some of them had
a certain quality, while others of them
have been without this quality. I shall say some As are Q and some are not Q, noting Q as an objective expression of that quality.
Since we
have experienced only a finite collection
of A's, it must be that there has been some
definite proportion of those As we have
experienced that have been Q
and we must have some good
reason for supposing that this same ratio