Editing Probability (section)

==Etymology==
{{see also|History of probability#Etymology|Glossary of probability and statistics}}
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The word ''probability'' [[Etymology|derives]] from the Latin {{Lang|la|probabilitas}}, which can also mean "[[:wiktionary:probity|probity]]", a measure of the [[authority]] of a [[witness]] in a [[legal case]] in Europe, and often correlated with the witness's [[nobility]]. In a sense, this differs much from the modern meaning of ''probability'', which in contrast is a measure of the weight of [[empirical evidence]], and is arrived at from [[inductive reasoning]] and [[statistical inference]].<ref name="Emergence">[[Ian Hacking|Hacking, I.]] (2006) ''The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference'', Cambridge University Press, {{ISBN|978-0-521-68557-3}} {{page needed|date=June 2012}}</ref>