Causation, randomness, and pseudo-randomness in John Venn'slogic of chance

DOI10.1080/01445340500260816MaRDI QIDQ5717548zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Byron E. Wall

Publication date 10 January 2006

Published in History and Philosophy of Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/01445340500260816

zbMATH Keywords

foundations of probability theory and statisticshistory of the logic of chanceJohn Vennphilosophy of mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Probability and inductive logic (03B48) History of probability theory (60-03) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05) History of statistics (62-03) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01)

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