probabilism
noun
the doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
probabilistically
-
a word derived from
probabilism.
Example Sentences
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He prides himself on thinking probabilistically and making decisions based on expected value.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026
One thing most handicappers — either quantitative or qualitative —encourage readers to do is to think about their forecasts probabilistically.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2024
“They tend to be probabilistically vanilla,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022
These systems then probabilistically reproduce the patterns they observe, to varying degrees of reliability and usefulness, but always guided by the training data.
From Seattle Times ● May 11, 2022
Rare events such as batting streaks that are the result of chance are not individually predictable, yet the pattern of their occurrence is probabilistically describable.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
