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The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context) (1st Edition) by Ian Hacking, Quentin Skinner, Tim Hacking Paperback, 282 Pages, Published 1990 ISBN-10: 0-521-38884-8 / 0521388848 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-38884-9 / 9780521388849 In this important study Ian Hacking continues the enquiry into the origins and development of certain characteristic modes of contemporary thought undertaken in such previous works as the best-selling The Emergence of Probability. Professor Hacking shows how by the late-nineteenth century it became |