Gaussians feel sort of like an attempt to make averaging equally useful for non-binary variables.
Averaging binary variables leads to frequencies (which may be used as probabilities), but this is not the case with other variables.
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A very frequentist view would be that probability theory is the theory of averages of booleans. Non-booleans must be dealt with indirectly.
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