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Towards a theory of chance—Part II

Information Sciences, 1979
Abstract The present paper defines a numerical sequence on the integers as being of random type if it has a serial correlation function tending to 0 at infinity, and if it is completely distributed. As well as the theoretical probabilistic content, techniques useful to statisticians and information scientists are given.
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"POLITENESS", SOCIOLINGUISTIC THEORY AND LANGUAGE CHANCE

Folia Linguistica Historica, 1994
L'A. examine le role des principes de politesse de Brown et Levinson dans un modele social de la variation et du changement linguistique. Il etablit une connexion entre la politesse et le changement linguistique a partir de deux elements: l'instabilite des strategies de politesse et la transmission intergenerationnelle des valeurs culturelles et ...
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Chance Combinatorics: The Theory that History Forgot

Perspectives on Science, 2023
Abstract Seventeenth-century “chance combinatorics” was a self-contained theory. It had an objective notion of chance derived from physical devices with chance properties, such as casts of dice, combinatorics to count chances and, to interpret their significance, a rule for converting these counts into fair wagers.
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Chance, determinism and the classical theory of probability

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2018
This paper situates the metaphysical antinomy between chance and determinism in the historical context of some of the earliest developments in the mathematical theory of probability. Since Hacking's seminal work on the subject, it has been a widely held view that the classical theorists of probability were guilty of an unwitting equivocation between a ...
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