Inferring and Explaining

56 InferrIng and exPlaInIng Notes 1 Antoine Lavoisier, Elements of Chemistry , trans. Robert Kerr (Edinburgh, Scotland: Dover, 1790), xiii–xvii, http://www.iupui.edu/~histwhs/H374.dir/ H374.webreader/Lavoisier.elements.html. 2 Te online Merriam-Webster Dictionary defnes ceteris paribus as “if all other relevant things, factors, or ele- ments remain unaltered.” 3 It is, of course, true that devices such as iPods do not truly generate anything randomly. But their random number generating algorithms simulate random- ness for all practical purposes.