Sublime

The evidence did not make the gentleman’s dishonesty certain, but it did make it extremely plausible.

We won’t try to understand it all at once, but we shall feel that progress has been made if we are able to construct idealized mathematical models which reproduce a few of its features.

Journal,

in the policeman’s syllogism (1.5), whether the plausibility for A increases by a large amount, raising it almost to certainty; or only a negligibly small amount, making the data B almost irrelevant? The object of the present work is to develop the mathematical theory which answers such questions, in the greatest depth and generality now possible.

principles of logic, and not the principles of psychology or neurophysiology.

Larry was an engineer’s engineer,

clever people sought to measure, in data bits, the amount of information produced in

Principles of Statistics by M. G. Bulmer