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Marie Jean Nicolas Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1734–1794) was a man of polymathic, if not polyhistoric, proportions. Pearson [1978] has described him as follows:
there have been better mathematicians, better economists, better historians, better philosophers and better politicians than Condorcet, but scarcely any man has been at the same time as good a mathematician, as good an economist, as good an historian, as good a philosopher and as good a politician as he was. [p. 425]
The Productions of an exalted Genius are very liable to Misconstruction and Civil, as the Subject is often clouded with some natural Intricacy. Francis Blake
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See Pearson [1978, p. 457].
See Dale [1982].
See Todhunter [1865, art. 467].
See Hacking [1971, p. 351].
See Gillispie [1972, p. 15].
On this point see Pearson [1978, p. 502].
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Dale, A.I. (1999). Condorcet. In: A History of Inverse Probability. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8652-8_6
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