Truth and Probability — Scriptorium Liberum

Probability, econometrics and truth

✍ Hugo A. Keuzenkamp 📂 Library 📅 2000 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

When John Maynard Keynes likened Jan Tinbergen's early work in econometrics to black magic and alchemy, he was expressing a widely held view of a new discipline. However, even after half a century of practical work and theorizing by some of the most accomplished social scientists, Keynes' comments a

Probability, Statistics and Truth

📁 Probability, Statistics and Truth

✍ Richard von Mises 📂 Library 📅 1957 🏛 George Allen & Unwin 🌐 English

Probability, statistics, and truth

📁 Probability, statistics, and truth

✍ Richard Von Mises 📂 Library 📅 1957 🏛 Dover Publications 🌐 English

A comprehensive study of probability, its relation to statistics and its truth-finding value. Text considers approaches of Pascal, Laplace, Poisson and others; discusses Laws of Large Numbers, theory of errors and other relevant topics. Complete with a large number of examples.<br

Truth and probability; Further Considera

📁 Truth and probability; Further Considerations; Probability and Partial Belief

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Provability and Truth

📁 Provability and Truth

✍ Torkel Franzen 📂 Library 📅 1987 🏛 Almqvist & Wiksell International 🌐 English

According to mathematical realism, the truths or facts of mathematics are not dependent on human knowledge, and in particular not on being provable. In the words of the mathematician G.H.Hardy, "Mathematical theorems are true or false; their truth or falsity is absolute and independent of our knowle

The Probable And The Provable

📁 The Probable And The Provable

✍ L. Jonathan Cohen 📂 Library 📅 1977 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian concept of probability in terms of which one can ana