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Montaigne and Shakespeare and Other Essays on Cognate Questions (Classic Reprint)
Montaigne and Shakespeare and Other Essays on Cognate Questions - Classic Reprint Author:J. M. Robertson A PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAY ON PROBABILITIES. — CHAPTER I, — INTRODUCTION. — This philosophical essay is the development of a lecture on probabilities which I delivered in 1795 %Q the normal schools whither I had been called, by a decree of the national convention, as professor of mathematics with Lagrange. I have recently published upon the same subject... more » a work entitled The Ayialytical Theory of Probabilities. I present here without the aid of analysis the principles and general results of this theory, applying them to the most important questions of life, which are indeed for the most part only problems of probability. Strictly speaking it may even be said that nearly all our knowledge is problematical; and in the small number of things which we arc able to know with certainty, even in the mathematical sciences themselves, the principal means for ascertaining truth -induction and analogy-are based on probabilities;
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