Abstract
Serious thought about probability, both as degree of belief in the light of evidence and as reflecting the tendency to produce stable relative proportions of occurrence upon repetition (as with the ratio of heads to tails when a coin is tossed repeatedly), emerged in the middle of the seventeenth century (see Hacking 2006). While probability and the related notions of likelihood and chance are nowadays in part everyday notions, they have also been regimented or codified in the formal, mathematical theory of probability. This formal theory admits various interpretations, some but not all of which draw on the everyday notions. Here I shall sketch connections between information and some interpretations of the formal theory. I shall begin by introducing the bare bones of the mathematical theory, sufficient to the demands of this chapter.
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