Basic Problems of Philosophy: Selected ReadingsDaniel J. Bronstein, Yervant Hovhannes Krikorian, Philip Paul Wiener |
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... probability , but would foretell the result of a game of chance , just as astronomers foretell the courses of the planets . This con- ception is named the subjective theory of probability ; it leads to determinism , the doctrine that ...
... probability , but would foretell the result of a game of chance , just as astronomers foretell the courses of the planets . This con- ception is named the subjective theory of probability ; it leads to determinism , the doctrine that ...
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... probability were not also there . It is not at all true that we ever find strict laws in nature . For all that we ... probability . Thus the idea of probability unavoidably enters the formulation of all laws of nature , if these laws are ...
... probability were not also there . It is not at all true that we ever find strict laws in nature . For all that we ... probability . Thus the idea of probability unavoidably enters the formulation of all laws of nature , if these laws are ...
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... probability . By passing to a large number of cases , we change the low probability of the single case into the high probability of average success . In this way we succeed in master- ing probability ; it is the same procedure as the ...
... probability . By passing to a large number of cases , we change the low probability of the single case into the high probability of average success . In this way we succeed in master- ing probability ; it is the same procedure as the ...
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