Classical Probability in the Enlightenment
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A priori probability
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Abraham de Moivre
Adolphe Quetelet
Ambiguity
Analogy
Archives nationales (France)
Ars Conjectandi
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Axiom
Bayes' theorem
Bayesian probability
Blaise Pascal
Calculation
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Certainty
Computation
Consideration
Contradiction
Credibility
Critique
Daniel Bernoulli
Determination
Determinism
Disadvantage
Emergence
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Equiprobability
Error
Estimation
Explanation
Fair coin
Gerd Gigerenzer
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Hypothesis
Illustration
Inference
Injunction
Insurance
Inverse probability
Mathematician
Mathematics
Moral certainty
Objective Probability
Phenomenon
Philosopher
Philosophy
Pierre-Simon Laplace
Prediction
Presumption (canon law)
Principia Mathematica
Principle
Principle of indifference
Probability
Probability interpretations
Probability theory
Quantification (science)
Quantity
Rationality
Reality
Reason
Reasonable person
Rebuttal
Result
Self-interest
Sensibility
Statistic
Statistics
Stipulation
Theorem
Theory
Treatise
Uncertainty
Verisimilitude
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- ISBN 9780691006444
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 197 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 1995
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as "nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus," in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.
Lorraine Daston is a Director of the Max Planck Institute of the History of Science, Berlin.
