Abstract: What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? Classical probabilists from Jakob Bernouli through Pierre Simon Laplace intended their theory as an answer to this question--as nothing more at bottom than good sense reduced to a calculus, in Laplace's words. In terms that can be easily grasped by nonmathematicians, Lorraine Daston demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.
Publication Year: 1989
Publication Date: 1989-02-01
Language: en
Type: article
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