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Probability and Chance, Fritz Mauthner's Studies of Improbability","site_heading":null,"date":"1915-08-23","location":null,"word_count":87,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/163/1915-08-23/p035","alignment_confidence":"medium","alignment_reason":"beads:length","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Marjorie Spock","identified_edition":"AP1988","book_title":"Chance, Providence and Necessity","publisher":"Anthroposophic Press","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA163/English/AP1988/19150823p01.html","evidence":"lecture_list_row","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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