A note on equiprobability prior to 1500
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30/06/2022Keywords
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Abstract
Rudolf Schuessler has argued that sixteenth-century thinkers developed a concept of equal probability that was virtually absent before 1500 and that may have contributed to the birth of mathematical probability shortly after 1650. This note uses additional textual evidence to argue that the concept of equal probability was in fact generally available to medieval thinkers. It is true that ascriptions of equal probability are comparatively rare in medieval texts, but this can be explained without positing a conceptual blind spot.
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Thakkar , M N A 2022 , ' A note on equiprobability prior to 1500 ' , Early Science and Medicine , vol. 27 , no. 2 , pp. 225-231 . https://doi.org/10.1163/15733823-20220042
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Early Science and Medicine
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Peer reviewed
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1383-7427Type
Journal article
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Copyright © Mark Thakkar, 2022. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license
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