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— Louise Bogan"Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else than such a carrier."
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It was our use of probability theory as logic that has enabled us to do so easily what was impossible for those who thought of probability as a physical phenomenon associated with "randomness". Quite the opposite; we have thought of probability distributions as carriers of information.
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