Ideas from 'The Emergence of Probability' by Ian Hacking [1975], by Theme Structure

[found in 'The Emergence of Probability' by Hacking,Ian [CUP 1975,0-521-31803-3]].

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / b. Seventeenth century philosophy

7454	Gassendi is the first great empiricist philosopher

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 6. Probability

7447	Probability was fully explained between 1654 and 1812

7448	Probability is statistical (behaviour of chance devices) or epistemological (belief based on evidence)

7449	Epistemological probability based either on logical implications or coherent judgments

13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 3. Evidentialism / a. Evidence

7450	In the medieval view, only deduction counted as true evidence

7451	Formerly evidence came from people; the new idea was that things provided evidence

14. Science / A. Basis of Science / 3. Experiment

7452	An experiment is a test, or an adventure, or a diagnosis, or a dissection [PG]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation

7459	Follow maths for necessary truths, and jurisprudence for contingent truths