The Method of Arbitrary Functions

DOI10.1093/BJPS/34.1.37MaRDI QIDQ3657113zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jan von Plato

Publication date 1983

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/34.1.37

zbMATH Keywords

foundations of probability theorymethod of arbitrary functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics and mathematicians (01A99) Axioms; other general questions in probability (60A05)

Cited in

(11)

• Probabilities as ratios of ranges in initial-state spaces
• Stable regularities without governing laws?
• On error operators related to the arbitrary functions principle
• No interpretation of probability
• A subjectivist's guide to deterministic chance
• Origins of the logical theory of probability: Von Kries, Wittgenstein, Waismann
• Stochastic independence and causal connection
• Memory, the fork asymmetry, and the initial state
• Dynamic probability and the problem of initial conditions
• Probability as typicality
• Less is different: emergence and reduction reconciled

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