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In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as his best selling Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it... read more

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First Sentence

The most decisive conceptual event of twentieth century physics has been the discovery that the world is not deterministic.

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  1. Tim Hacking (Author)
  2. Ian Hacking

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