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At a more basic or granular level, the elements of a subset are dual to the distinctions (pairs of elements in different blocks) of a partition. The quantitative version of subset logic is probability theory (as developed by Boole), and the quantitative version of the logic of partitions is information theory re-founded on the notion of logical entropy. The subset side of the duality uses a one-sample (or one-element) approach, e.g., the mean of a random variable; the partition side uses a two-sample (or pair-of-elements) approach. 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