The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference Frederik Obermaier Featuring the thinking of today's

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The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference Frederik Obermaier Featuring the thinking of today'sHistorical 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 inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries. Hacking invokes a wide intellectual framework