» Is my brilliant idea any good? I am not sure, so I’ve pre-printed it on PeerJ

"As a scientist, what should I do when I encounter a seemingly fundamental problem that also seems strangely unfamiliar? Is it unfamiliar because I am up to something really new, or am I re-discovering something that has been around for centuries, and I have just missed it? This is a short story about an exploration that began with such a problem, and led to this manuscript. It began one day when I was pondering the idea of probability ..."