The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory (Q891755)
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The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory (English)
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17 November 2015
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The paper is devoted to the discussion of the historical and theoretical meaningfulness of the distinction between `objective' and `subjective' probability. The author examines whether and how this appeared in the work of the mid-nineteenth-century British revisionist probabilists. A detailed analysis of the contributions of Augustus De Morgan, John Stuart Mill, George Boole, Robert Ellis and John Venn to probability is provided.
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nineteenth-century probability theory
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objective probability
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subjective probability
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inductive logic
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syllogistic logic
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