probabilism
noun
the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
probabilist
-
a word derived from
probabilism.
Example Sentences
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The RALI's personnel includes experienced computer scientists and linguists in natural language processing both in classical symbolic methods as well as in newer probabilist methods.
From Multilingualism on the Web by Marie Lebert
How then does the probabilist contrive to extract certainty out of a case of insoluble doubt?
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
The probabilist thereupon leaves the direct speculative doubt unsolved.
From Moral Philosophy by Joseph Rickaby, S.J.
The most subtle of these adversaries was the probabilist Carneades, in the second century before our era.
From The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont
