Measures over initial conditions

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In Yemima Ben-Menahem & Meir Hemmo (eds.), Probability in Physics. Springer. pp. 87--98 (2012)
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This paper concerns the meaning of the idea of typicality in classical statistical mechanics and how typicality is related to the notion of probability.

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Typicality and the role of the Lebesgue measure in statistical mechanics.Itamar Pitowsky - 2012 - In Yemima Ben-Menahem & Meir Hemmo (eds.), Probability in Physics. Springer. pp. 41--58.
Why does physics need mathematics? A comment.Itamar Pitowsky - 1992 - In Edna Ullmann-Margalit (ed.), The Scientific Enterprise. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 163--167.

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