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Probability in the Sciences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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Probability in the Sciences (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
Series: Synthese Library, 201
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Probability has become one of the most characteristic con cepts of
modern culture, and a 'probabilistic way of thinking' may be said
to have penetrated almost every sector of our in tellectual life.
However it would be difficult to determine an explicit list of
'positive' features, to be proposed as identifica tion marks of
this way of thinking. One would rather say that it is characterized
by certain 'negative' features, i. e. by certain at titudes which
appear to be the negation of well established tra ditional
assumptions, conceptual frameworks, world outlooks and the like. It
is because of this opposition to tradition that the probabilistic
approach is perceived as expressing a 'modern' in tellectual style.
As an example one could mention the widespread diffidence in
philosophy with respect to self -contained systems claiming to
express apodictic truths, instead of which much weaker pretensions
are preferred, that express 'probable' interpretations of reality,
of history, of man (the hermeneutic trend). An ana logous example
is represented by the interest devoted to the study of different
patterns of 'argumentation', dealing wiht reasonings which rely not
so much on the truth of the premisses and stringent formal logic
links, but on a display of contextual conditions (depending on the
audience, and on accepted stan dards, judgements, and values),
which render the premisses and the conclusions more 'probable' (the
new rhetoric)."
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