Gian-Carlo Rota Quote

Conditional probability tends to be viewed as one technique for calculating probabilities. Actually, there is more to it than meets the eye: it has an interpretation which is ordinarily passed over in silence. Philosophers take notice.


Indiscrete Thoughts, Chapter XX (p. 227), Birkhäuser. 1997


Conditional probability tends to be viewed as one technique for calculating probabilities. Actually, there is more to it than meets the eye: it has...

Conditional probability tends to be viewed as one technique for calculating probabilities. Actually, there is more to it than meets the eye: it has...

Conditional probability tends to be viewed as one technique for calculating probabilities. Actually, there is more to it than meets the eye: it has...

Conditional probability tends to be viewed as one technique for calculating probabilities. Actually, there is more to it than meets the eye: it has...