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- catalog abstract "This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.".
- catalog contributor b2679663.
- catalog created "1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1990.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-256) and index.".
- catalog description "The argument -- The doctrine of necessity -- Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats -- Bureaux -- The sweet despotism of reason -- The quantum of sickness -- The granary of science -- Suicide is a kind of madness -- The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation -- Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value -- By what majority? -- The law of large numbers -- Regimental chests -- Society prepares the crimes -- The astronomical conception of society -- The mineralogical conception of society".
- catalog description "The most ancient nobility -- Cassirer's thesis -- The normal state -- As real as cosmic forces -- The autonomy of statistical law -- A chapter from Prussian statistics -- A universe of change.".
- catalog description "This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 264 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0521380146".
- catalog identifier "0521388848 (pbk.)".
- catalog isPartOf "Ideas in context".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "123/.3 20".
- catalog subject "BD595 .H33 1990".
- catalog subject "Chance.".
- catalog subject "Necessity (Philosophy)".
- catalog tableOfContents "The argument -- The doctrine of necessity -- Public amateurs, secret bureaucrats -- Bureaux -- The sweet despotism of reason -- The quantum of sickness -- The granary of science -- Suicide is a kind of madness -- The experimental basis of the philosophy of legislation -- Facts without authenticity, without detail, without control, and without value -- By what majority? -- The law of large numbers -- Regimental chests -- Society prepares the crimes -- The astronomical conception of society -- The mineralogical conception of society".
- catalog tableOfContents "The most ancient nobility -- Cassirer's thesis -- The normal state -- As real as cosmic forces -- The autonomy of statistical law -- A chapter from Prussian statistics -- A universe of change.".
- catalog title "The taming of chance / Ian Hacking.".
- catalog type "text".