BOOK I PART III
from each part of the probability. Since there-
fore each part of the probability contributes to
the production of the belief, each part of the
possibility must have the same influence on the
opposite side; the nature of these parts being
entirely the same. The contrary belief, attend-
ing the possibility, implies a view of a certain
object, as well as the probability does an op-
posite view. In this particular both these de-
grees of belief are alike. The only manner then,
in which the superior number of similar com-
ponent parts in the one can exert its influence,
and prevail above the inferior in the other, is by
producing a stronger and more lively view of
its object. Each part presents a particular view;
and all these views uniting together produce
one general view, which is fuller and more dis-
tinct by the greater number of causes or princi-
ples, from which it is derived.