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Comment author: johnlawrenceaspden 30 August 2012 11:14:22AM 0 points [-]

And I don't, by the way, put this forward as an account of 'how classical physics fell'. Those guys were using classical logic.

Probability theory is the generalization of logic to uncertain propositions, which is why it can deal with 'I only ever see white swans' being evidence for 'All swans are white'.