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The Matter of Chance

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dc.contributor.authorMellor, David Hugh
dc.date.accessioned2006-11-25T11:08:36Z
dc.date.available2006-11-25T11:08:36Z
dc.date.issued1971
dc.descriptionThis PDF file is made available by permission of Cambridge University Press. To order a hard copy, go to http://www.cambridge.org/0521615984en
dc.description.abstractThe book develops an account of objective chances as properties of events (e.g. of coin tosses) defined by the degrees of belief (e.g. that the coin will land heads) which embody knowledge of those chances. The chances manifest propensities: dispositional properties of objects (e.g. a coin's bias). The account is applied to theories of radioactive decay and of how human death risk increases with age, and is used to show how knowledge of propensities underlies apparently a priori derivations of classical chance distributions. Finally it shows how propensities entail indeterminism and are consistent with a Humean view of laws of nature.en
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dc.identifier.citationD. H. Mellor (1971) The Matter of Chance, Cambridge University Pressen
dc.identifier.isbn0521615984
dc.identifier.urihttp://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/183661
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
dc.rightshttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/183651en
dc.rights.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/183651en
dc.subjectPhilosophyen
dc.subjectMetaphysicsen
dc.subjectProbabilityen
dc.subjectChanceen
dc.titleThe Matter of Chanceen
dc.typeBooken

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