Probability Is the Very Guide of Life
Subtitle: The Philosophical Uses of Chance
Contributors: Henry E. Kyburg (Editor); Mariam Thalos (Editor)
Publisher: Open Court
Published: May 8, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780812695137
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Philosophy; Logic; Probability & Statistics - General; Philosophy / Logic; General; Probabilities
First sentence: Perhaps the most difficult problem confronted by Reichenbach's explication of physical probabilities as limiting frequencies is that of providing decision procedures for assigning singular occurrences to appropriate reference classes, that is, the problem of the single case.