The role of probabilistic theory qua logical system that leads from a stated theoretical position and data to truth and knowledge is the focus of this essay. The traditional role of probability theory qua statistics as a number-crunching tool to cook data has been over-emphasized. Probabilism is offered as a dialectical alternative to emphasize the human, logical, and creative aspects of probability theory as it can be used by truth-seeking anthropologists of this and the next century.
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