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The Role of Probability in Our Understanding
There's two main schools of how to interpret probability, which are still very much arguing with each other nowadays. Frequentism and Bayesianism are the two big schools of the 20th century,. In suit, I want to turn our attention to physics, but start with an 18th century physicist, P.S. Laplace. How did he envisage the universe and the role of probability in our understanding? And here's it where, rather eloquently, set out the agenda, didn't he?