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of space. The body is in that
case said to be or to have been
in motion, and of the several
portions of space which it is
successively considered as having
successively occupied during
that time, the track or path
of the body is composed.
The term event is an appellation
given to any motion or combination of motions, or to any
state of things considered as the
result of any such motion or
combination of motions, whatsoever
be the body or bodies
to which the motion is considered
as having place. Among the
subjects the number of events
considered as being of the same
sort likely to happen in a given
length of time. In so far as
the events in question can on
any account be considered
as likely belonging to the class
of necessary events
arithmetic thus applied reasonings
having for their object
the discovery of the number
of these events likely to have
place within a given length of
time may be considered as
applied to practical use.
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