And this, of course, is the definition of independent events, as applied to the event of being Black and the event of being a Man.
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This, of course, is the definition of independent events, as applied to the event of being Black and the event of being a Man. It seems to be the most likely guess that this is the meaning of Peirce's statement about frequencies:
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It seems like a likely guess, then, that this is the content of Peirce's statement about frequencies, [''m'',''b''] = [''m'',][''b''], in this case normalized to produce the equivalent statement about probabilities: P(''m'' & ''b'') = P(''m'')P(''b'').