Children had to choose one of two urns—each comprising beads of winning and losing colours—from which to draw a winning bead. Three experiments, aimed at diagnosing rules of choice and designed ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract It is argued that probability should be defined implicitly by the distributions of possible measurement values characteristic of a theory.

ON 8 September 1526, the Blessed Virgin’s birthday, Jerome Cardano was in Venice. While others were praying, Cardano was playing cards at the house of senator Thomas Lezun. He was confident that his ...