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The science of conjecture : evidence and probability before Pascal /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Franklin, James (Autor de introducción, etc.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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245 0 4 |a The science of conjecture :  |b evidence and probability before Pascal /  |c with a new preface James Franklin. 
264 1 |a Baltimore, Maryland :  |b Johns Hopkins University Press,  |c 2015. 
264 4 |c ©2015 
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Preface to the 2015 Edition -- Preface -- 1. The Ancient Law of Proof -- Egypt and Mesopotamia -- The Talmud -- Roman Law: Proof and Presumptions -- Indian Law -- 2. The Medieval Law of Evidence: Suspicion, Half-proof, and Inquisition -- Dark Age Ordeals -- The Gregorian Revolution -- The Glossators Invent Half-proof -- Presumptions in Canon Law -- Grades of Evidence and Torture -- The Postglossators Bartolus and Baldus: The Completed Theory -- The Inquisition -- Law in the East -- 3. Renaissance Law -- Henry VIII Presumed Wed -- Tudor Treason Trials. 
505 8 |a Continental Law: The Treatises on Presumptions -- The Witch Inquisitors -- English Legal Theory and the Reasonable Man -- 4. The Doubting Conscience and Moral Certainty -- Penance and Doubts -- The Doctrine of Probabilism -- Suarez: Negative and Positive Doubt -- Grotius, Silhon, and the Morality of the State -- Hobbes and the Risk of Attack -- The Scandal of Laxism -- English Casuists Pursue the Middle Way -- Juan Caramuel Lobkowitz, Prince of Laxists -- Pascal's Provincial Letters -- 5. Rhetoric, Logic, Theory -- The Greek Vocabulary of Probability -- The Sophists Sell the Art of Persuasion. 
505 8 |a Aristotle's Rhetoric and Logic -- The Rhetoric to Alexander -- Roman Rhetoric: Cicero and Quintilian -- Islamic Logic -- The Scholastic Dialectical Syllogism -- Probability in Ordinary Language -- Humanist Rhetoric -- Late Scholastic Logics -- 6. Hard Science -- Observation and Theory -- Aristotle's Not-by-Chance Argument -- Averaging of Observations in Greek Astronomy -- The Simplicity of Theories -- Nicole Oresme on Relative Frequency -- Copernicus -- Kepler Harmonizes Observations -- Galileo on the Probability of the Copernican Hypothesis -- 7. Soft Science and History -- The Physiognomics. 
505 8 |a Divination and Astrology -- The Empiric School of Medicine on Drug Testing -- The Talmud and Maimonides on Majorities -- Vernacular Averaging and Quality Control -- Experimentation in Biology -- The Authority of Histories -- The Authenticity of Documents -- Valla and the Donation of Constantine -- Cano on the Signs of True Histories -- 8. Philosophy: Action and Induction -- Carneades's Mitigated Skepticism -- The Epicureans on Inference from Signs -- Inductive Skepticism and Avicenna's Reply -- Aquinas on Tendencies -- Scotus and Ockham on Induction -- Nicholas of Autrecourt. 
505 8 |a The Decline of the West -- Bacon and Descartes: Certainty? or Moral Certainty? -- The Jesuits and Hobbes on Induction -- Pascal's Deductivist Philosophy of Science -- 9. Religion: Laws of God, Laws of Nature -- The Argument from Design -- The Church Fathers -- Inductive Skepticism by Revelation -- John of Salisbury -- Maimonides on Creation -- Are Laws of Nature Necessary? -- The Reasonableness of Christianity -- Pascal's Wager -- 10. Aleatory Contracts: Insurance, Annuities, and Bets -- The Price of Peril -- Doubtful Claims in Jewish Law -- Olivi on Usury and Future Profits. 
546 |a English. 
590 |a ProQuest Ebook Central  |b Ebook Central Academic Complete 
650 0 |a Probabilities  |x History. 
650 0 |a Evidence  |x History. 
650 6 |a Probabilités  |x Histoire. 
650 6 |a Évidence  |x Histoire. 
650 7 |a Evidence  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Probabilities  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Mathematics.  |2 hilcc 
650 7 |a Physical Sciences & Mathematics.  |2 hilcc 
650 7 |a Mathematical Statistics.  |2 hilcc 
655 7 |a History  |2 fast 
700 1 |a Franklin, James,  |e author of introduction, etc. 
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