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Existential and Epistemic Probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

David Hawkins
David Hawkins*
Affiliation:
University of California
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Epistemology in modern times has been much influenced by the growth of the mathematical theory of probability. The reverse influence is less obvious, but perhaps equally important. This interrelation affords, moreover, an excellent example of the way philosophic ideas, while directing attention in one fruitful line of inquiry, at the same time may inhibit other discoveries until long overdue.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 1943 , pp. 255 - 261
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1943

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References

1 C. S. Peirce, Collected Papers, v. 2, ch 7, sec. 2–7.

2 For a convenient summary of recent developments in the fundamental theory of statistical inference, see A. Wald, on the Principles of Statistical Inference, Notre Dame, 1942.

3 It is not claimed that this is the only clear meaning “epistemic probability,” but that it is a clear meaning, whose implications for the theory of knowledge have not been well enough explored.