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  2. From: mkrogers@unix.amherst.edu (MICHAEL K ROGERS)
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  4. Subject: Re: Philosophical Foundations of Probability?
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  6. Date: 14 Oct 92 12:19:49 GMT
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  14. jimmy donal wales (jwales@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
  15. : I'm looking for pointers to books or review articles on modern
  16. : views of the philosophical foundations of probability theory.
  17. : 
  18. : --Jimbo
  19.  
  20. The closest thing I know of are two books by Ian Hacking,
  21. "The Emergence of Probability" and "The Taming of Chance."
  22. They're published by Cambridge, I think
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