Classical Probability In The Enlightenment
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| Originally published | 1988 |
| Authors | Lorraine Daston |
| Genres | Thesis |
| Editors | Lorraine Daston |
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| ID | 2061612 |
About Classical Probability In The Enlightenment
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. . . .