Yet Laplace had built his probability theory on intuition. As far as he was concerned, “essentially, the theory of probability is nothing but good common sense reduced to mathematics. It provides an exact appreciation of what sound minds feel with a kind of instinct, frequently without being able to account for it.
-Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
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