The Concept of Probability in the Mathematical Representation of Reality

by Reichenbach, Hans; Eberhardt, Frederick; Glymour, Clark

• ISBN13: 9780812696097
• ISBN10: 0812696093
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-28
• Publisher: Open Court

Summary

This lucid, early work by Hans Reichenbach is of much more than historical interest. It anticipates current investigations in philosophy of science.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Notes on the Translation	p. 1
Historical Background on the Dissertation	p. 2
Dissertation	p. 2
Influences on the Dissertation and Reichenbach's References	p. 14
Reichenbach's 1927 Comments on his Dissertation	p. 22
Reichenbach's Theory of Probability after the Dissertation	p. 23
Contemporary Echoes	p. 31
Epilogue	p. 33
Bibliography	p. 33
Die Bedeutung der Wahrscheinlichkeit fur die mathematische Darstellung der Wirklichkeit	p. 38
Das Problem	p. 38
Analyse spezieller Wahrscheinlichkeitsprobleme	p. 58
Deduktion des Wahrscheinlichkeitsprinzips	p. 104
Die Stellung der Wahrscheinlichkeitsurteile zur Wirklichkeit	p. 130
Lebenslauf	p. 148
The Concept of Probability in the Mathematical Representation of Reality	p. 39
The Problem	p. 39
Analysis of Special Problems in Probability	p. 59
Deduction of the Principle of Probability	p. 105
The Relation of Judgments of Probability to Reality	p. 131
Resume	p. 149
Bibliography	p. 151
Index	p. 153
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