Evolutionary theory and the reality of macro-probabilities

DOI10.1007/978-90-481-3615-5_6MaRDI QIDQ2997002zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Elliott Sober

Publication date 6 May 2011

Published in The Place of Probability in Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3615-5_6

zbMATH Keywords

objective probabilityindispensability argumentevolutionary theorytotal evidenceunconditional probability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Problems related to evolution (92D15)

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