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must make sure that they are so. This “independence”
that is so much insisted upon is
nothing but the absence of any law of
recurrence. All the good writers insist that
we must assure ourselves of the independence
of the “events,” as they call the
instances; so that they teach that it is not
enough to be ignorant of law, but that it
requisite that we should make sure that there is no law
of the kind is pertinent to the
question. Now information of this
description does not involve any kind
of knowledge of future individual instances.
There may be in such knowledge ground for an
inference as to individual instances; but the

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must make sure that they are so.
This "independence" that is so much insisted upon is nothing but the absence of any law of recurrence.
All the good writers insist that we must assure ourselves of the [u]independence[/u] of the [u]"events,"[/u] as they call the instances; so that they teach that it is not enough to be ignorant of law, but that it requisite that we should make sure that there [u]is[/u] no law of the kind is pertinent to the question.
Now information or description does not involve any kind of knowledge of suture individual instances.
There may be in such knowledge ground for an inference as to individual instances; but the