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Discovered, not invented.
by tlarkworthy 13y ago
Discovered, not invented.
- lutusp 13y ago> Discovered, not invented. This refers to a philosophical debate that asks whether mathematics is part of nature or an artificial invention of man. I think the debate has begun to lean toward mathematics being part of nature, in which case yes, the proper term is discovered.
- bachback 13y agoInterestingly enough this notion, that there is only this one type of probability was debated before Kolmogorov by people like Ramsey and Keynes. Now the subjective interpretation of probability is called Bayesian statistics, which is not a helpful term. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/probability-interpret/