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Historical 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... read more
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- Jacques Bernoulli: Add a description of this character.
- Hume
- De Witt
- Graunt
- Cardano
- Wilkins
- Hudde
- Arbuthnot
- Descartes
- Pascal
- Arnauld
- Locke
- Carnap
- Huygens
- Thomas Bayes
- Laplace
- Ludwig
- Aquinas
- Paracelsus
- Halley
- Derham
- Hobbes
- Spinoza
- De Moivre
- Bacon
- Jeffreys
- L. J. Savage
- Einstein
- Boyle
- Nicholas Bernoulli
- Roannez
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- Ian Hacking (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 519.5
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