Johannes von Kries : principles of the probability calculus : a logical investigation / Keith K. Niall.
Niall, Keith K., 1955-
2023
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Title Johannes von Kries : principles of the probability calculus : a logical investigation / Keith K. Niall.
Author Niall, Keith K., 1955-
Uniform Title Principien der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung. English
ISBN 9783031365065 (electronic bk.)
3031365062 (electronic bk.)
3031365054
9783031365058
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36506-5
Publication Details Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-36506-5 doi
Call Number QA273
Dewey Decimal Classification 519.2
Summary This book provides an English translation of the work Principles of the Probability Calculus published in 1886 by Johannes von Kries, which discusses the range theory of probability. It offers a novel account of the foundations of probability, an account which was familiar to Keynes, Kneale, Weber, Reichenbach, and von Mises. This account dispenses with the principle of indifference in probability, and it introduces the method of arbitrary functions. Confusions in the history of probability are pinpointed, and a novel theory is developed in which probability is neither entirely subjective nor objective. The book develops what is known as the range theory or Spielraum theory in detail, in a narrative way using few formulas. Von Kries applies range theory to Boltzmanns theory of the statistical behaviour of gases, and to several applications in medical statistics. Many uses of probability are found wanting; very often they are found not to admit any expression of probability in numbers at all. The book will be of first interest to philosophers of science and historians interested in the foundations of probability. It is also of general interest to anyone who applies statistics everyday in such fields as econometrics, psychology, or medicine.
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Series Studies in history and philosophy of science (Dordrecht, Netherlands) ; v. 59.
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Intro
Translatorś Preface
References
Preface to the First Printing
Preface to the Second Printing
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: The Meaning of Probability Statements
Chapter 2: The Convention of Equally Warranted Premises
Chapter 3: The Theory of Games of Chance
Chapter 4: The Special Theory of Probability
Chapter 5: Varieties of Numeric Probability
Chapter 6: Establishing and Justifying Probability Statements
Chapter 7: On the Significance of the Range Principle, and the Probability Calculus

Chapter 8: Application of the Probability Calculus to Theoretical Physics
Chapter 9: More Applications of the Probability Calculus
Chapter 10: On the History of Probability Theory
Chapter 11: On Probability Theory
Chapter 12: Conventions of Measurement in Psychophysics
References
Bibliography
Index

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