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When the Purity therefore of a Sen

Certainty and contingence an affair of number:
it depends upon the number of the chances
for and against it's happening: that is of
the number of instances in which (within a
given time) it has and has not happened.
The Laws of chance are founded on this presumption
that those numbers will in
future continue to bear to each other the same proportion.

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1st as to Intensity

Jo. B. ad imisum & dextrum

[I judge in the next place that this intensity
is to a certain amount]

In the next place I judge this intensity to be
to a certain amount. Some amount at any
rate+ I must give it: that by multiplying
+ hap hazard
this by the other dimensions||, I may give my
|| into the remaining
judgment concerning the entire amount of
the act's mischief: that I may give my
judgment in consequence concerning the
punishment to be applied++ to prevent it.
++ means to be employ'd
For this is the sole end of my inquiries.
This I must also agree with him in: at least
I must not differ with him in it very widely:
if I hope# to bring him to assent to the
# am
punishment (for example) that I have to propose.

Happily, concerning what is Pleasure &
what Pain, with respect to the consequences
of those acts which a man would propose
for the objects of Laws, mankind are pretty
well agreed. They may differ after all
that can be said or done with respect to
the amount. For that there is no help. It is
no great misfortune; for that difference, (we
shall see when we come to particulars) will
not amount to much.

It is on the subject of the Purity of a lot of
Happiness, that the differences among men
will be most [strenuous] & most difficult
to be removed.

Purity.

The Purity of a lot of Happiness or Unhappiness, is but
the ratio the value of that lot to that of another lot, i:e:
of the values of two lots of Happiness to
each other, consider'd as issuing from the
same cause.

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ÆSTIMATION. III.

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Folio number	009	Info in main headings field	aestimation iii
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