SOURCE: Smith, Jonathan, Lawrence I. Berkove, and Gerald Baker. “A Grammar of Dissent: Flatland, Newman, and the Theology of Probability.” Victorian Studies 39, no. 2 (winter 1996): 129-50.
In the following essay, Smith, Berkove, and Baker explore Abbott's interest in the writings of John Henry Newman and Bishop Joseph Butler and their theories of analogical and probabilistic reasoning.
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