Tychomancy : : Inferring Probability from Causal Structure /

Tychomancy : : Inferring Probability from Causal Structure / / Michael Strevens.

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Tychomancy-meaning "the divination of chances"-presents a set of rules for inferring the physical probabilities of outcomes from the causal or dynamic properties of the systems that produce them. Probabilities revealed by the rules are wide-ranging: they include the probability of getting...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2013
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Strevens, Michael,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (279 p.) :; 18 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • FIGURES
  • AUTHOR'S NOTE
  • PHYSICAL INTUITION
  • I. 1859
  • 1. THE APRIORIST
  • 2. THE HISTORICAL WAY
  • 3. THE LOGICAL WAY
  • 4 THE COGNITIVE WAY
  • II. EQUIDYNAMICS
  • 5. STIRRING
  • 6. SHAKING
  • 7. BOUNCING
  • 8. UNIFYING
  • III. BEYOND PHYSICS
  • 9. 1859 AGAIN
  • 10. APPLIED BIOEQUIDYNAMICS
  • 11. INACCURACY, ERROR, AND OTHER FLUCTUATIONS
  • IV. BEFORE AND AFTER
  • 12. THE EXOGENOUS ZONE
  • 13. THE ELEMENTS OF EQUIDYNAMICS
  • 14. PREHISTORY AND META - HISTORY
  • NOTES
  • GLOSSARY
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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