Article ID: CBB001553591

The Objective and the Subjective in Mid-Nineteenth-Century British Probability Theory (2015)

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This paper provides a critical discussion of the historical and theoretical meaningfulness of the distinction between `objective' and `subjective' probability, as it supposedly emerged around 1840, by examining whether and how it appeared in the work of the mid-nineteenth-century British revisionist probabilists. A detailed analysis of the contributions of Augustus De Morgan, John Stuart Mill, George Boole, Robert Leslie Ellis and John Venn to probability is put forward in order to show that in so far as the terms did not appear as contradictories it is not possible to understand or compare these contributions with reference to the modern binary of `objective' and `subjective'.

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Authors & Contributors
Verburgt, Lukas M.
Donal Murphy
Dunning, David E.
Zabell, Sandy L.
Wang, Xiao-qin
Valente, K. G.
Concepts
Mathematics
Logic
Probability and statistics
Mathematicians
Science education and teaching
Historical method
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
England
France
Germany
British Isles
Institutions
London Mathematical Society
Oxford University
Cambridge University
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