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Chance and Error [electronic resource] : The Theory of Evolution

Author
Hopkins, Marsh
Published
Milton : Routledge, 2019.
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1 online resource (238 pages).
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Contents
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Copyright; Original Title; PREFACE; CONTENTS; CHAPTER I.-Propositions; CHAPTER II.-Games Whose Expectation is 0; CHAPTER III.-Direct Observations; CHAPTER IV.-Indirect Observatios; CHAPTER V.-Statistics; CHAPTER VI.-Target Practice; CHAPTER VII.-Errors in Three Dimensions; CHAPTER VIII.-Monte Carlo; CHAPTER IX.-Variable Chances; CHAPTER X.-Sorts; CHAPTER XI.-Miscellaneous; Index
Summary
Originally published in 1923 Chance and Error examines the vagaries of chance, and how this is the result of the interference of yes and no. The book basis its examination of chance on the idea of a two-sided coin. The book stipulates that contradictories are head and tail, or yes and no. When the coin is flipped in the air yes normally wins half of the trials, but this includes half of the half that normally go to no. Thus, normally in one quarter of the trials there is an interference of yes and no. From this the chance of any number of heads or tails can be easily calculated, and all results that are attained by more difficult mathematics are secured. The book uses this idea to examine interference of yes and no in everyday life and argues that this causes the variations in everything that goes on around us in nature and in our daily life. This book will be of interest to philosophers of logic, as well as mathematicians.
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9781000020403
1000020401
9780429294204 (electronic bk.)
0429294204 (electronic bk.)
9781000020724 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
100002072X (electronic bk. : EPUB)
9781000020564 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
1000020568 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket)
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