The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference Just Pictures ISBN10: 0312429096

ISBN10: 0312429096

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The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference Just Pictures ISBN10: 0312429096Historical records show that there was no real concept of probability in Europe before the mid seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace. Ian Hacking presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction, and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Hacking invokes a wide intellectual framework