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{{a| | {{a|systems|}}The JC is no great statistician, but the idea of probability gets tossed around rather more than it usefully should. | ||
probability in the narrow sense, concerns itself with the outcome of discrete events with fixed nature that happen in tightly bounded circumstances — rather akin to Nancy Cartwright’s idea of the “[[nomological machine]]”: the tossing of a die, for example. Here the tightly bounded circumstances are: | probability in the narrow sense, concerns itself with the outcome of discrete events with fixed nature that happen in tightly bounded circumstances — rather akin to Nancy Cartwright’s idea of the “[[nomological machine]]”: the tossing of a die, for example. Here the tightly bounded circumstances are: |