The Probable and the Provable (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) - Hardcover

Cohen, L. Jonathan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198244126 ISBN 13: 9780198244127

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1977

Synopsis

The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian concept of probability in terms of which one can analyse the structure of forensic proof without giving rise to such typical signs of theoretical misfit. Neither the complementational principle for negation nor the multiplicative principle for conjunction applies to the central core of any forensic proof in the Anglo-American legal system. There are four parts included in this book. Accordingly, these parts have been written in such a way that they may be read in different orders by different kinds of reader.

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Review

`Salutary reading for all philosophers, and not only for inductive logicians, philosophers of science and law, this important book presents an elaborate theory of inductive reasoning whose substantive features are strikingly original as the approach is rare.' The Review of Metaphysics

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0198244126
• ISBN 13: 9780198244127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 384