I have to admit I wasn’t very impressed by A Very Short Introduction. The author used “façon-de-parler” when they could have used “figure of speech.” They didn’t mention or use probabilistic reasoning at any point, except to point out how mysterious (wiggles fingers) probabilities are. And they closed a section on the debate between Newton and Leibniz over whether absolute motion exists with the phrase “the controversy rages on.”
I have to admit I wasn’t very impressed by A Very Short Introduction. The author used “façon-de-parler” when they could have used “figure of speech.” They didn’t mention or use probabilistic reasoning at any point, except to point out how mysterious (wiggles fingers) probabilities are. And they closed a section on the debate between Newton and Leibniz over whether absolute motion exists with the phrase “the controversy rages on.”