is rooted in Berkeley's empiricist philosophy which tolerates no expression without a referent. Andersen (2011) showed that Berkeley's doctrine of the compensation of errors contains a logical circularity. Namely, Berkeley's determination of the derivative of the quadratic function relies on Apollonius's determination of the tangent of the parabola.

Influence

Two years after this publication, Thomas Bayes published

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