“The true logic for this world is the calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability which is, or ought to be, in a reasonable man's mind.”
“The true logic for this world is the calculus of Probabilities, which takes account of the magnitude of the probability which is, or ought to be, in a reasonable man's mind.”
Commentary
Maxwell argued that rational belief should match the strength of the evidence. This view foreshadowed his later use of statistical methods in the kinetic theory of gases.