How probabilities came to be objective and subjective
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: How probabilities came to be objective and subjective
zbMATH Open document ID: 0805.01009
author: Lorraine Daston
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 1994-10-26T00:00:00Z
review text: The author contends that the difference between subjective and objective probabilities began to be studied in earnest in the 1840's (Cournot, Poisson, Ellis) and that the scholars involved held divergent opinions about the exact meaning of these terms. Concerning her additional discussion of the dialectics of chance and determinism I remark that De Moivre did not simply deny chance (the pertinent quotation is incomplete), nor did Laplace's (or, by implication, De Moivre's) ``ironclad determinism'' impede them from developing the theory of probability, i.e., from discovering the laws of chance.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 60-03
zbMATH DE Number: 672365
zbMATH Keywords: Cournot
zbMATH Keywords: Poisson
zbMATH Keywords: Ellis
zbMATH Keywords: chance
zbMATH Keywords: determinism
zbMATH Keywords: De Moivre
reviewed by: O. B. Sheĭnin
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: hmat.1994.1028
OpenAlex ID: W2058979853
cites work: Q5563224
cites work: Classical Probability in the Enlightenment, New Edition
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cites work: Q3803965
DOI: 10.1006/HMAT.1994.1028
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