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THE notices formerly given of the first and second editions of Prof. Pearson's well-written “Grammar of Science” (see NATURE,. vol. 46, pp. 97–99, 1892, and vol. 62, pp. 49–50, 1900) scarcely need to be added to in the way of a general review. The main feature of the new edition which differentiates it from the others is the addition of two new chapters: chapter v., on, contingency and correlation, and chapter x., modern physical ideas. The former chapter is particularly noteworthy, presenting as it does in a wonderfully small compass the scientific significance of the two terms contingency and correlation. The general reader, whose mathematical symbolism is of the most elementary type, will probably find difficulty in appreciating the full scope of this chapter. A simple concrete example might not have proved amiss.
The Grammar of Science.
By Prof. Karl Pearson Part i., Physical. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xx + 394. (London: A. and C. Black, 1911.) Price 6s. net.
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The Grammar of Science . Nature 89, 188–189 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089188a0
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