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In this chapter, Marie Collins Swabey discusses the problem of induction and offers her response to it.
Marie Collins Swabey: First published in 1930, in Logic and Nature. New York: The University of New York Press, pp. 287–302.
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Venn, J., The logic of chance, 2nd ed., p. 94.
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From the point of view of the universe-at-large, with its endless variety of possible systems and arrangements, the probability of the occurrence of one event rather than another would appear to be 1/∞.
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Swabey, M.C., Edited by., Katzav, J., Vaesen, K. (2023). Probability as the Basis of Induction. In: Katzav, J., Vaesen, K., Rogers, D. (eds) Knowledge, Mind and Reality: An Introduction by Early Twentieth-Century American Women Philosophers. Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24437-7_13
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