Ian Hacking: Probability

Ian Hacking is Canadian philosopher. Explore interesting quotes on probability.

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“Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.”

Ian Hacking

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 3, Opinion, p. 23.

Game , Decision , Chance

“Many modern philosophers claim that probability is relation between an hypothesis and the evidence for it.”

Ian Hacking

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 4, Evidence, p. 31.

“Probability fractions arise from our knowledge and from our ignorance.”

Ian Hacking

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 14, Equipossibility, p. 132.

Knowledge

“Opinion is the companion of probability within the medieval epistemology.”

Ian Hacking

Source: The Emergence Of Probability, 1975, Chapter 3, Opinion, p. 28.