Robert Leslie Ellis's work on philosophy of science and the foundations of probability theory

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2013.07.003zbMath1283.60009OpenAlexW1976987670MaRDI QIDQ391357

Lukas M. Verburgt

Publication date: 10 January 2014

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hm.2013.07.003

zbMATH Keywords

probability theoryBaconianismnineteenth-century philosophy of scienceRobert Leslie EllisWilliam Whewell

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Foundations of probability theory (60A99) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Bibliographies for mathematics in general (00A15)

Related Items (5)

A letter of Robert Leslie Ellis to William Walton on probability ⋮ Remarks on the idealist and empiricist interpretation of frequentism: Robert Leslie Ellis versus John Venn ⋮ The objective and the subjective in mid-nineteenth-century British probability theory ⋮ Robert Leslie Ellis, William Whewell and Kant: the role of Rev H F C Logan ⋮ John Venn's Hypothetical Infinite Frequentism and Logic

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