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Co-existence of concrete things to be deduced from Causation (p. 297) Sec.5. Explanation consists in tracing resemblance, especially of Causation 299 Sec.6. Three modes of Explanation 302 Analysis (p. 302); Concatenation (p. 302); Subsumption (p. 303) Sec.7. Limits of Explanation 305 Sec.8. Analogy 307 CHAPTER XX PROBABILITY Sec.1. Meaning of Chance and Probability 310 Sec.2. Probability as a fraction or proportion 312 Sec.3. Probability depends upon experience and statistics 313 Sec.4. It is a kind of Induction, and pre-supposes Causation 315 Sec.5. Of Averages and the Law of Error 318 Sec.6. Interpretation of probabilities 324 Personal Equation (p. 325); meaning of 'Expectation' (p. 325) Sec.7. Rules of the combination of Probabilities 325 Detection of a hidden Cause (p. 326); oral tradition (p. 327); circumstantial and analogical evidence (p. 328) CHAPTER XXI DIVISION AND CLASSIFICATION Sec.1. Classification, scientific, special and popular 330 Sec.2. Uses of classification 332 Sec.3. Classification, Deductive and Inductive 334 Sec.4. Division, or Deductive Classification: its Rules 335 Sec.5. Rules for testing a Division 337 Sec.6. Inductive Classification 339 Sec.7. Difficulty of Natural Classification 341 Sec.8. Darwin's influence on the theory of Classification 342 Sec.9. Classification of Inorganic Bodies also dependent on Causation 346 CHAPTER XXII NOMENCLATURE, DEFINITION, PREDICABLES Sec.1. Precise thinking needs precise language 348 Sec.2. Nomenclature and Terminology 349 Sec.3. Definition 352 Sec.4. Rules for testing a Definition 352 Sec.5. Every Definition is relative to a Classification
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