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Ian Hacking here presents a philosophical critique of early ideas about probability, induction and statistical inference and the growth of this new family of ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The contemporary debate centres round such figures as Pascal, Leibniz and jacques Bernoulli.Hacking, Ian is the author of 'Emergence of Probability A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas About Probability, Introduction and Statistical Inference' with ISBN 9780521318037 and ISBN 0521318033.
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