. Inductive arguments are often formulated in terms of the probability calculus. Theorists have discovered specific rules for determining the probability of a statement’s truth (or an event’s occurrence) based on the probability of other statements being true (or other events occurring). While the details are beyond the scope of this book, something called Bayes’ theorem is often used, a formula that evaluates the conditional probability of two or more mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive
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