The Probable and the Provable

by L. Jonathan Cohen

The book was planned and written as a single, sustained argument. But earlier versions of a few parts of it have appeared separately. The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian concept of probability in terms of which one can analyse the structure of forensic proof without giving rise to such typical signs of theoretical misfit. Neither the complementational principle for negation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198244126
• ISBN13: 9780198244127
• Release Date: December 1977
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"