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BIBLIOGRAPHY

J. Arbuthnot, “An Argument for Divine Providence,
Taken From the Constant Regularity Observ'd in the Birth
of Both Sexes,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal
Society,
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Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances,” Philo-
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53 (1763),
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A. A. Cournot, Essai sur les fondements... (1851), trans.
M. H. Moore as Essay on the Foundations of our Knowledge
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the History of Probability and Statistics, I. Dicing and
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Gambling
(London, 1962). Bruno de Finetti, “La Prévision:
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l'Institut Henri Poincaré,
7 (1937), 1-68; trans. H. E. Kyburg,
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MAURICE KENDALL

[See also Causation; Chance Images; Epicureanism; For-
tune; Free Will and Determinism; Game Theory; Indeter-
minacy;
Number; Probability.]