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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.Ian Hacking is the author of 'The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference', published 1975 under ISBN 9780521204606 and ISBN 0521204607.
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