Averaging binary variables leads to frequencies (which may be used as probabilities), but this is not the case with other variables.
Gaussians feel sort of like an attempt to make averaging equally useful for non-binary 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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