In this paper we sketch the history and the philosophy of statistics and probability theory and the connections to its political aspects. Knowledge of the ...
Continue Reading βAn Essay towards solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances is a work on the mathematical theory of probability by Thomas Bayes, published in ...
Continue Reading βChance and Necessity: Essay on the Natural Philosophy of Modern Biology (French: Le Hasard et la NΓ©cessitΓ©: Essai sur la philosophie naturelle de ...
Continue Reading βDe rerum natura (English: On the Nature of Things) is a first-century BC didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. ...
Continue Reading βBefore the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put ...
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