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Sure you would. If you thought something was standing in your way, youd get tough. You’d getawfully tough. But now were just getting started, Irvine said. 130 Roys brain ripped through his few options. The stairs were a big gamble, and if he got this wrong, he would be trapped. A sitting target. But right now they seemed to be his only real chance. It was a dangerous gamble. He had to make it work. The theory of the foundations of morality is a subject which it would be out of place, in a work like this, to discuss at large, and which could not to any useful purpose be treated incidentally. I shall content myself, therefore, with saying, that the doctrine of intuitive moral principles, even if true, would provide only for that portion of the field of conduct which is properly called moral. For the remainder of the practice of life some general principle, or standard, must still be sought; and if that principle be rightly chosen, it will be found, I apprehend, to serve quite as well for the ultimate principle of Morality, as for that of Prudence, Policy, or Taste. That (as DAlembert says) if the succession of sixes was actually thrown before our eyes, we should ascribe it not to chance, but to unfairness in the dice, is unquestionably true. But this arises from a totally different principle. We should then be considering, not the probability of the fact in itself, but the comparative probability with which, when it is known to have happened, it may be referred to one or to another cause. The regular series is not at all less likely than the irregular one to be brought about by chance, but it is much more likely than the irregular one to be produced by design;or by some general cause operating through the structure of the dice. It is the nature of casual combinations to produce a repetition of the same event, as often and no oftener than any other series of events. But it is the nature of general causes to reproduce, in the same circumstances, always the same event. Common sense and science alike dictate that, all other things being the same, we should rather attribute the effect to a cause which if real would be very likely to produce it, than to a cause which would be very unlikely to produce it. According to Laplace’ssixth theorem, which wedemonstrated in a former chapter, the difference of probability arising from the superior efficacy of the constant cause, unfairness in the dice, would after a very few throws far outweigh any antecedent probability which there could be against its existence. Annie smiles back. Forget it, okay? And then what? It remains to be considered what principles are to be adhered to in giving general names, so that these names, and the general propositions in which they fill a place, may conduce most to the purposes of Induction. The second part of Mr. Bains argument, in which he contends that even when the premises convey real information, the conclusion is merely the premises with a part left out, is applicable, if at all, as much to universal propositions as to singular. In every syllogism the conclusion contains less than is asserted in the two premises taken together. Suppose the syllogism to be Oh Christ, I said. What are they registered under? What names? Is Wendel drunk? In his room, with Wendel. I said I was looking for a drink, more than anything else, at least at that time. I bought and Kewpie bought and then he said:You could land here, if you want. I hear theyre looking for a man, now. Exactly, Rob said. Reasons which you dont want to go into here. Those are the reasons that I’m interested in, that I have a right to be interested in — under the circumstances. But you dont know whether he was conscious or not?.