John Venn, The Logic of Chance — Preface to Second Edition (1888)
“ The principal of these refer to the nature and physical origin of Laws of Error (Ch. ii.) ; the general view of Logic, and consequently of Probability, termed the Material view, adopted here (Ch. .) ; a brief history and criticism of the various opinions held on the subject of Modality (Ch. .) ; the logical principles underlying the method of Least Squares (Ch. .) ; and the practices of Insurance and Gambling, so far as the principles involved in them are concerned (Ch. .) . The Chapter on the Credibility of Extraordinary Stories is also mainly new ”
