The Probable and the Provable (Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy) by Cohen, L. Jonathan - 1977

Oxford: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1977. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Clarendon Library of Logic and Philosophy Dark blue, classic Oxford cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine. Upper page edges are lightly foxed/toned with age. Page edges are stamped in red with a university library. Pastedowns are scarred where bookplate and envelope were removed. Interior is unmarked. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: The object of this book is both to establish the existence of the paradoxes, and also to describe a non-Pascalian concept of probability in terms of which one can analyse the structure of forensic proof without giving rise to such typical signs of theoretical misfit. Neither the complementational principle for negation nor the multiplicative principle for conjunction applies to the central core of any forensic proof in the Anglo-American legal system. There are four parts included in this book. [1. Can there be a non-Pascalian concept of probability?; 2. Six difficulties for a Pascalian account of judicial probability; 3. The elements of inductive probability; 4. Some applications of inducive probability.] Accordingly, these parts have been written in such a way that they may be read in different orders by different kinds of reader. (-presumably from the publisher). law; legal evidence