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Ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding' and 'Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number'

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10. Modality / B. Possibility / 6. Probability

2216	We transfer the frequency of past observations to our future predictions [Hume]
	Full Idea: Where different effects have been found to follow from causes, which are to appearance exactly similar, all these various effects must occur to the mind in the same proportion in transferring the past to the future.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], VI.47)

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 7. Chance

2215	There is no such thing as chance [Hume]
	Full Idea: There is no such thing as chance in the world.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], VI.46)