The continental controversy over Arbuthnot's argument for divine providence
The author points out that what was novel in John Arbuthnot's paper in the Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of 1710 was his attempt to provide a statistical proof of his assertions based on a quantitative concept of chance, with the argument expressed in numerical terms. The effects of Arbuthnot's arguments on 'sGravesande and Niklaus [Nicholas] Bernoulli is described. [An additional relevant reference to the present study would have been: \textit{A. P. Yushkevich}, Nicholas Bernoulli and the publication of Ars Conjectandi by Jacob Bernoulli, Theory Probab. Appl. 31, 286-303 (1987; Zbl 0616.01008), translation from Teor. Veroyatn. Primen. 31, No.2, 333-352 (1986; Zbl 0599.01007).]
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