The algebra of probable inference

Johns Hopkins University Press (1961)
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Cox develops and demonstrates that probability theory is the only theory of inductive inference that abides by logical consistency. He does so through a functional derivation of probability theory as the unique extension of Boolean Algebra thereby establishing the legitimacy of probability theory as formalized by Laplace in the 18th century. (Mathematics)

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