Historical records show that there was no real concept of Probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace.
Hacking invokes a wide intellectual framework involving the growth of science, economics, and th.
Ian Hacking presents a Philosophical critique of Early Ideas about probability, induction, and Statistical Inference and the growth of this new family of Ideas in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.
Historical records show that there was no real concept of Probability in Europe before the mid-seventeenth century, although the use of dice and other randomizing objects was commonplace