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Professor Carnap and Probability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

William H. Hay
William H. Hay*
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The University of Wisconsin
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Most handbooks on statistics and the theory of probability leave the reader in a mysterious tangle of mathematical rules for computing apparently arbitrarily chosen numerical functions. At first sight, then, a treatise on the Logical Foundations of Probability raises hopes that it will be a guide to clarity in these matters. These hopes are strengthened if the reader remembers that the author, Professor Rudolph Carnap of the University of Chicago, is noted for his thesis that philosophy is the study of the logic of science. On the other hand, a first glance into this book may discourage a reader who, though familiar with statistics, is not familiar with modern logic and its notation. For this reason particularly I shall try to give an account of this book that will enable the interested student to form some opinion of its usefulness to him.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , April 1952 , pp. 170 - 177
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1952

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