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An Introduction to Probability and Inductive Logic | 
 enlarge | Author: Ian Hacking
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
List Price: £19.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 338870
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0521775019
Dewey Decimal Number: 160
EAN: 9780521775014
ASIN: 0521775019
Publication Date: July 2, 2001
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An antidote to mindless reasoning February 28, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Our ancestors had to decide how safe it was to enter a cave, we have to decide how safe it is to buy a stock or to get a new job. Both are inductions, and we are still not very good at them. But, unlike our ancestors, we have come to massively underestimate the problem and often take evidence at face value, especially when fashioned as "scientific". Hacking's introduction is an excellent antidote to the sorry custom of drawing mindless conclusions from seemingly sophisticated but invalid probabilistic reasoning. I also recommend reading Hacking's other two books on the history probability: The Emergence of Probability and The Taming of Chance.
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