 | Peter L. Bernstein - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...to us, as Locke says, "in the greatest part of our concernment, God has afforded only the Twilight, as I may so say, of Probability, suitable, I presume,...Probationership He has been pleased to place us in here."1" Notes INTRODUCTION 1. Quoted in Keynes, 1921, frontispiece to Chapter XXVIII. 2. Personal... | |
 | Jan Schröder - 1998 - عدد الصفحات: 240
...after a better State: So in the greatest part of our Concernment, he has afforded us only the twilight, as I may so say, of Probability, suitable, I presume,...Probationership, he has been pleased to place us in here". 33 LOCKE: Essay 4. 14.3; 653, 1-20 : "The Faculty, which God has given Man to supply the want of clear... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 676
...'twilight of probability' as divine chastisement, 'wherein we might not be overconfident and presume; but might by every day's Experience, be made sensible of our short-sightedness, and liableness to error'; Leibniz, confident in his legal training and in the prospects of the new mathematics of chance,... | |
 | Donald Gillies - 2000 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...a few things ... so, in the greatest part of our concernment, he has afforded us only the twilight, as I may so say, of probability, suitable, I presume,...probationership he has been pleased to place us in here ... (Locke 1690:BookIV,xiv) This is a most significant passage because it recognises the uncertainty... | |
 | Kenneth R. Hammond, Thomas R. Stewart - 2001 - عدد الصفحات: 562
...Uncertainty Jobn Locke (l690/l959) remarked that "God . . . has afforded us only with the twilight of probability; suitable, I presume, to that state...probationership he has been pleased to place us in here" (vol. 2, p. 360). Bubler's psychology opened the door for Brunswik to the twilight of uncertainty,... | |
 | Jean-Philippe Bouchaud, Marc Potters - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...random variables In the greatest part of our concernments, [God] has afforded us only the twilight, as I may so say, of probability; suitable. I presume,...probationership he has been pleased to place us in here. (John Locke. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.) 2.1 Maximum of random variables - statistics... | |
 | Kenneth R. Hoover - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 362
...to us, as Locke says, "in the greatest part of our concernment. God has afforded only the Twilight, as I may so say, of Probability, suitable. I presume,...Probationership. He has been pleased to place us in here."7 This sort of "epistemic" probability falls short of certainty, but has a rational, and therefore... | |
 | John Shand - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 250
...visible here: "in the greatest 132 part of our Concernment, he [God] has afforded us only the twilight, as I may so say, of Probability ', suitable, I presume,...Probationership, he has been pleased to place us in here" (IV. xiv. 2). When knowledge is not available we have to use our judgement, which Locke defines as... | |
 | Greg Forster - 2005 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...judgment. "In the greatest part of our concernment," God "has afforded us only the twilight, as I may say, of probability, suitable, I presume, to that...probationership, he has been pleased to place us in here" (E IV.14.2, 652). The conduct of this search is the greatest concern of the Essay. The first three... | |
 | Gianni Paganini - 2003 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...greatest part of our Concernment, he has afforded us only the twilight ... of Probability, suitable, l presume, to that State of Mediocrity and Probationership, he has been pleased to place us in here... the Sense whereof might be a constant Admonition to us, to spend the days of this our Pilgrimage with... | |
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... in the greatest part of our concernment, he has afforded us only the twilight, as I may so say, of probability, suitable, I presume, to that state of mediocrity and probationership he has been pleased to place us in here... 
