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(1988) Modern modalities, Dordrecht, Springer.
From possibility to probability
British discussions on modality in the nineteenth century
Ilkka Niiniluoto
pp. 275-309
The latter half of the nineteenth century was a heroic period for formal logic. The new mathematical tools for analysing the art of reasoning liberated logicians from their traditional chains. This event gave birth to the modern research programme of mathematical logic, which has ever since been able to keep up a high rate of progress with a wealth of novel techniques, results, and applications.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2915-9_7
Full citation:
Niiniluoto, I. (1988)., From possibility to probability: British discussions on modality in the nineteenth century, in S. Knuuttila (ed.), Modern modalities, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 275-309.