Objective Theory of Probability (Routledge Revivals)

Informationen zum Autor Authored by Gillies, Donald Zusammenfassung This reissue of D. A. Gillies highly influential work, first published in 1973, is a philosophical theory of probability which seeks to develop von Mises’ views on the subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: The Special Sciences in General 1. Von Mises’ Philosophy of Science: Its Machian Origins 2. Force and Mass 3. Conceptual Innovation in the Exact Sciences Part Two: The Axiomatic Superstructure 4. Probability and Frequency 5. Repeatability and Independence 6. Deduction of the Law of Excluded Gambling Systems: The Role of Randomness in Probability Theory 7. Probabilities of Single Events: Popper’s Propensity Theory Part Three: A Falsifying Rule for Probability Statements 8. The Falsification Problem for Probability Statements 9. Formulation of a Falsifying Rule 10. Evaluation of the Falsifying Rule 11. The Neyman-Pearson Theory

Product details

• Authors: Donald Gillies, Donald Gillies, Gillies Donald
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9780415617925
• ISBN: 978-0-415-61792-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, Philosophy of Mathematics, Probability & statistics, Philosophy: logic, Probability and statistics