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Insufficient Reason Principle

A principle also called the Indifference Principle which was first enunciated by Johann Bernoulli. The insufficient reason principle states that, if we are ignorant of the ways an event can occur and therefore have no reason to believe that one way will occur preferentially to another, it will occur equally likely in any way.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26