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“IF the actual history of science had been different, and if the scientific doctrines most familiar to us had been those which must be expressed in this [statistical] way, it is possible that we might have considered the existence of a certain kind of contingency as self-evident truth, and treated the doctrine of philosophical necessity as a mere sophism.”
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LARMOR, J. The Scientific Principle of Uncertainty. Nature 125, 345 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125345a0
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