2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/212612This paper argues for the status of formal probability theory as a mathematical, rather than a scientific, theory. David Freedman and Philip Stark's concept of model based probabilities is examined and is used as a bridge between the formal theory and applications.Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/193940307000000347 the IMS Collections (http://www.imstat.org/publications/imscollections.htm) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)Probability62A01 (Primary)Probability theory and its modelstext