Probability in the Sciences

Probability has become one of the most characteristic concepts of modern culture, and a 'probabilistic way of thinking' may be said to have penetrated almost every sector of our intellectual life. However it would be difficult to determine an explicit list of 'positive' features, to be proposed as identification marks of this way of thinking. One would rather say that it is characterized by certain 'negative' features, i. e. by certain attitudes which appear to be the negation of well estab...