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We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves.

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How can a single introduction of our own [average], and that a fictitious one, possibly take the place of the many values which were actually given to us? And the answer surely is, that it can not possibly do so; the one thing cannot take the place of the other for purposes in general, but only for this or that specific purpose.

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If we start with the assumption, grounded on experience, that there is uniformity in this average, and so long as this is secured to us, we can afford to be perfectly indifferent to the fate, as regards causation, of the individuals which compose the average.

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John Venn

John Venn

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Born: August 4, 1834

Died: April 4, 1923 (aged 88)

Bio: John Venn was an English logician and philosopher noted for introducing the Venn diagram, used in the fields of set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.

Known for:

The logic of chance (1866)
Alumni Cantabrigienses (1922)
Early collegiate life (1913)

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