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Classical probability in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston.
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TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1988.Description: xviii, 423 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN: - 0691084971 (alk. paper)
- 9780691084978 (alk. paper)
- 9780691006444
- 069100644X
- ARCH YNDC 519.2 D231C
- QA273.A4 D37 1988
Contents:
The prehistory of the classical interpretation of probability: expectation and evidence -- Expectation and the reasonable man -- The theory and practice of risk -- Associationism and the meaning of probability -- The probability of causes -- Moralizing mathematics -- The decline of the classical theory.
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"Originally ... a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University"--Pref.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 387-412.
The prehistory of the classical interpretation of probability: expectation and evidence -- Expectation and the reasonable man -- The theory and practice of risk -- Associationism and the meaning of probability -- The probability of causes -- Moralizing mathematics -- The decline of the classical theory.
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