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theory, and accordingly the phrase was used in Thomas Bayes' famous posthumous paper An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances, wherein a version of Bayes' theorem was first introduced.

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The full title of the first edition was The Doctrine of Chances: or, A Method of Calculating the Probability of Events in Play. It was published in 1718,

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