| 书目名称 | Probability in the Sciences | | 编辑 | Evandro Agazzi (President of the International Aca | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Synthese Library | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | Probability has become one of the most characteristic con cepts of modern culture, and a ‘probabilistic way of thinking‘ may be said to have penetrated almost every sector of our in tellectual life. However it would be difficult to determine an explicit list of ‘positive‘ features, to be proposed as identifica tion marks of this way of thinking. One would rather say that it is characterized by certain ‘negative‘ features, i. e. by certain at titudes which appear to be the negation of well established tra ditional assumptions, conceptual frameworks, world outlooks and the like. It is because of this opposition to tradition that the probabilistic approach is perceived as expressing a ‘modern‘ in tellectual style. As an example one could mention the widespread diffidence in philosophy with respect to self -contained systems claiming to express apodictic truths, instead of which much weaker pretensions are preferred, that express ‘probable‘ interpretations of reality, of history, of man (the hermeneutic trend). An ana logous example is represented by the interest devoted to the study of different patterns of ‘argumentation‘, dealing wiht reasonings which rely not so much on the | | 出版日期 | Book 1988 | | 关键词 | formal logic; logic; ontology; probability; quantum mechanics; statistics; truth | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3061-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-94-010-7877-1 | | isbn_ebook | 978-94-009-3061-2Series ISSN 0166-6991 Series E-ISSN 2542-8292 | | issn_series | 0166-6991 | | copyright | Kluwer Academic Publishers 1988 |
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