The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2015.01.003MaRDI QIDQ891755zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Lukas M. Verburgt

Publication date 17 November 2015

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2015.01.003

zbMATH Keywords

inductive logicsyllogistic logicobjective probabilitysubjective probabilitynineteenth-century probability theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of probability theory (60-03) Foundations of probability theory (60A99)

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