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Remarks on the Idealist and Empiricist Interpretation of Frequentism: Robert Leslie Ellis Versus John Venn (2014)

Verburgt, Lukas M. (Author)

British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Volume: 29, no. 3
Issue: 3
Pages: 184-195

DOI: 10.1080/17498430.2014.889269

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Mathematicians Empiricism Mathematics 19th century Great Britain Ellis, Robert Leslie Venn, John

The goal of this paper is to correct a widespread misconception about the work of Robert Leslie Ellis and John Venn, namely that it can be considered as the `British empiricist' reaction against the traditional theory of probability. It is argued, instead, that there was no unified `British school' of frequentism during the nineteenth century. Where Ellis arrived at frequentism from a metaphysical idealist transformation of probability theory's mathematical calculations, Venn did so on the basis of an empiricist critique of its `inverse application'.

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