{"product_id":"probability-and-opinion-a-study-in-the-medieval-presuppositions-of-post-medieval-theories-of-probability-9789401502955","title":"Probability and Opinion: A Study in the Medieval Presuppositions of Post-Medieval Theories of Probability","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Edmund F. Byrne\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Medieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eModern physics has accustomed us to consider events which cannot give rise to certainty in our knowledge. A scientific knowledge of such events is nevertheless possible. The method which has enabled us to obtain a stable and exact knowledge about uncertain events consists in a kind of changing of plane and in the replacing of the study of indi- vidual phenomena by the study of statistical aggregates to which those phenomena can give rise. A statistical aggregate is not a collection of real phenomena, among which some would happen more often, others more rarely. It is a set of possibilities relative to a certain object or to a certain type of phenomenon. For example, we could consider the differ- ent ways in which a die, thrown in given conditions, can fall: they are the possible results of a certain trial, the casting of the die (in the fore- seen conditions). The set of those results constitutes effectively a set of possibilities, relative to a phenomenon of a certain type, the fall of the die in specified circumstances. Similarly, it is possible to consider the different velocities which can affect a molecule in a volume of gas; the set of those velocities constitutes effectively a set of possible values which a physical property, namely the velocity of a molecule, can have.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45283104358551,"sku":"9789401502955","price":6610.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789401502955.webp?v=1769304091","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/probability-and-opinion-a-study-in-the-medieval-presuppositions-of-post-medieval-theories-of-probability-9789401502955","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}