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"In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin examines how judges, witch inquisitors, and juries evaluated evidence; scientists weighed reasons for and against scientific theories; and merchants counted shipwrecks to determine insurance rates. Sometimes this type of reasoning avoided numbers entirely, as in the legal standard of "proof beyond a reasonable doubt"; at other times it involved rough numerical estimates, such as gambling odds or the level of risk in chance events.
The Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty."--BOOK JACKET.
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Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
2015, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
2015, Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal
July 23, 2002, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability before Pascal
June 22, 2001, The Johns Hopkins University Press
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"THE LAW OF EVIDENCE is the central thread in the history of probability."
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