Lacan and probability.
Clero, Jean-Pierre (2008)
Journal Électronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique [electronic only]
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Clero, Jean-Pierre (2008)
Journal Électronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique [electronic only]
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Soazig Le Bihan (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Carrier’s paper is mainly a defence of incommensurability as “a sensible notion”, on the basis of the context theory of meaning. I shall here discuss his semantic reconstruction of the notion. His argument consists in exhibiting cases where incommensurability is instantiated thanks to a symmetrical proof of untranslatability, based on a distinction between two determinants of the meaning of a concept. I shall mainly show that a logical asymmetry in the distinction hinders the argument...
Israël Scheffler (1997)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Reviel Netz (2005)
Revue d'histoire des mathématiques
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The note addresses briefly some reactions to a previous article “”. In particular it looks at the question: if indeed any text must depend on previous texts, what makes the dependency of commentary and commentary-like text so special to justify my emphasis on this form of writing ? A suggestion is developed, trying to define Deuteronomic texts through their precise semiotics of intertextuality: in general, it is argued, intertextuality may be paradigmatic (= allusion) or syntagmatic...
Ian Maclean (2005)
Revue d'histoire des mathématiques
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Thomas Harriot (1560?–1621) is known today as an innovative mathematician and a natural philosopher with wide intellectual horizons. This paper will look at his interest in combinations in three contexts: language (anagrams), natural philosophy (the question of atomism) and mathematics (number theory), in order to assess where to situate him in respect of three current historiographical debates: 1) whether there existed in the late Renaissance two opposed mentalities, the occult and...
Paul Weingartner (1998-1999)
Philosophia Scientiae
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Léna Soler (2004)
Philosophia Scientiae
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In this article I present, first, a criticism of certain aspects of the way Martin Carrier characterizes semantic incommensurability on the basis of a contextual theory of language. Subsequently I introduce some distinctions and put forward some proposals in order to pursue the same project. It will be argued that two different conceptions of the notion “conditions of applications” and, correlatively, two different meanings of the clause “preservations of the inferential relations”,...
Meusnier, Norbert, Piron, Sylvain (2007)
Journal Électronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique [electronic only]
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Urken, Arnold B. (2008)
Journal Électronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique [electronic only]
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H. P. Young (1990)
Mathématiques et Sciences Humaines
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Condorcet believed that the purpose of voting is to make a choice that is “best” for society. According to his view, there is one choice that is objectively best, another that is second-best, and so forth. Unfortunately, voters sometimes make mistakes ; they misperceive what is best. In designing a voting rule, therefore, the objective should be to choose the alternative that is most likely to be best. Condorcet solved this problem using a form of maximum likelihood estimation. The procedure...