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	{{a\|~~devil~~\|}}The JC is no great statistician, but the idea of probability gets tossed around rather more than it usefully should.		{{a\|systems\|}}The JC is no great statistician, but the idea of probability gets tossed around rather more than it usefully should.

	probability in the narrow sense, concerns itself with the outcome of discrete events with fixed nature that happen in tightly bounded circumstances — rather akin to Nancy Cartwright’s idea of the “[[nomological machine]]”: the tossing of a die, for example. Here the tightly bounded circumstances are:		probability in the narrow sense, concerns itself with the outcome of discrete events with fixed nature that happen in tightly bounded circumstances — rather akin to Nancy Cartwright’s idea of the “[[nomological machine]]”: the tossing of a die, for example. Here the tightly bounded circumstances are: