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Argues that the probabilities invoked in Anglo=American law do not conform to the mathematics of the classical calculus of chance but have a determinate non-POascalian structure whih is closely connected with certain other patterns of human reasoning, and notably with the strucutre of inductive reasoning in experimental science.
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`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
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