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From "Origins of the Logical Theory of Probability: von Kries, Wittgenstein, Waismann," by Michael Heidelberger — "Von Kries calls a range of objective possibilities of a hypothesis or event (under given laws) its Spielraum (literally: play space), which can mean ‘room to move’, ‘leeway’, ‘latitude of choice’, ‘degree of freedom’ or ‘free play’ and ‘clearance’ – or even ‘scope’. John Maynard Keynes translated it as ‘field’, but the term ‘range’ has generally been adopted in English. Von Kries now holds that if numerical probability were to make any sense at all it must be through this concept of the Spielraum . Von Kries’s theory is therefore called a ‘Spielraum theory’ or ‘range theory of probability’." — International Studies in the Philosophy of Science , Volume 15, Issue 2, 2001, pp. 177-188 |
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"Now, for example, in how far are
the six sides of a symmetric die
'equally possible' upon throwing?"
— From "The Natural-Range Conception
of Probability," by Dr. Jacob Rosenthal,
page 73 in Time, Chance, and
Reduction: Philosophical Aspects of
Statistical Mechanics , ed. by
Gerhard Ernst and Andreas Hüttemann,
Cambridge U. Press, 2010, pp. 71-90
