Book I: Fundamental Ideas
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Book I: Fundamental Ideas is the opening section of John Maynard Keynes’s *A Treatise on Probability*, where he lays out the foundational concepts and philosophical underpinnings of his theory of probability.
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book section
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part of non-fiction book → |
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analyze rational belief under uncertainty
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clarify the meaning of probability statements → distinguish probability from frequency → provide a rigorous philosophical basis for probability → |
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John Maynard Keynes
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first edition of A Treatise on Probability
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frequency interpretation of probability
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subjective interpretation of probability → |
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a priori probabilities
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degrees of rational belief → logical relations between evidence and hypothesis → the concept of weight of evidence → |
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epistemology
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philosophy of probability → probability theory → |
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concept of partial belief
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inductive reasoning → logical interpretation of probability → logical relations of support → probability as a logical relation between propositions → rational degrees of belief → the nature of evidence → |
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later technical developments in A Treatise on Probability
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John Maynard Keynes as philosopher of probability
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early 20th-century debates on the foundations of probability
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British empiricism
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earlier theories of induction → logical tradition in philosophy → |
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English
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| laysOut |
foundational concepts of Keynes’s probability theory
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philosophical underpinnings of Keynes’s theory of probability → |
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influencing later logical and epistemic interpretations of probability
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systematic treatment of probability as logic → |
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A Treatise on Probability
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A Treatise on Probability
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anti-frequentist view of probability
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realist view of logical relations → |
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first book
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A Treatise on Probability (1921)
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economists concerned with uncertainty
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mathematicians interested in foundations → philosophers of science → |
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theoretical exposition
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A Treatise on Probability
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