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Ideas in Context

Paperback • 1990

Ideas in Context

By Ian Hacking

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About the book

In this important new study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late nineteenth century it became possible to think of statistical patterns as explanatory in themselves, and to regard the world as not necessarily deterministic in character. In the same period the idea of human nature was displ...Show more

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9780521380140

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1990

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Ideas in Context

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