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 1 VIII |      there was no necessary or probable connection: but he made
 2 IX   |      conform to the law of the probable and possible, and in virtue
 3 IX   |    succeed one another without probable or necessary sequence. Bad
 4 X    |     should be the necessary or probable result of the preceding
 5 XV   |        at the necessary or the probable. Thus a person of a given
 6 XV   |    follow that by necessary or probable sequence. It is therefore
 7 XVIII|     defeated. Such an event is probable in Agathon’s sense of the
 8 XVIII|       s sense of the word: "is probable," he says, "that many things
 9 XXIV |         the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable
10 XXV  |     the requirements of art, a probable impossibility is to be preferred
11 XXV  | violate reason; just as "it is probable that a thing may happen