  This paper analyzes the ergodic hypothesis in the context of Boltzmann's late
work in statistical mechanics, where Boltzmann lays the foundations for what is
today known as the typicality account. I argue that, based on the concepts of
stationarity (of the measure) and typicality (of the equilibrium state), the
ergodic hypothesis, as an idealization, is a consequence rather than an
assumption of Boltzmann's approach. More precisely, it can be shown that every
system with a stationary measure and an equilibrium state (be it a state of
overwhelming phase space or time average) behaves essentially as if it were
ergodic. I claim that Boltzmann was aware of this fact as it grounds both his
notion of equilibrium, relating it to the thermodynamic notion of equilibrium,
and his estimate of the fluctuation rates.
