Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction 2006
- 1 An absent family of ideas
- 2 Duality
- 3 Opinion
- 4 Evidence
- 5 Signs
- 6 The first calculations
- 7 The Roannez circle (1654)
- 8 The great decision (1658?)
- 9 The art of thinking (1662)
- 10 Probability and the law (1665)
- 11 Expectation (1657)
- 12 Political arithmetic (1662)
- 13 Annuities (1671)
- 14 Equipossibility (1678)
- 15 Inductive logic
- 16 The art of conjecturing (1692[?] published 1713)
- 17 The first limit theorem
- 18 Design
- 19 Induction (1737)
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction 2006
- 1 An absent family of ideas
- 2 Duality
- 3 Opinion
- 4 Evidence
- 5 Signs
- 6 The first calculations
- 7 The Roannez circle (1654)
- 8 The great decision (1658?)
- 9 The art of thinking (1662)
- 10 Probability and the law (1665)
- 11 Expectation (1657)
- 12 Political arithmetic (1662)
- 13 Annuities (1671)
- 14 Equipossibility (1678)
- 15 Inductive logic
- 16 The art of conjecturing (1692[?] published 1713)
- 17 The first limit theorem
- 18 Design
- 19 Induction (1737)
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Emergence of ProbabilityA Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference, pp. 203 - 209Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006