Only the Academicians believed that certain things were probable, more probable than others, and they are the founders of probabilism, which is nothing more than conviction accompanied with modesty. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Philosophy] Reference
John's Academic tendencies are behind his defense of probabilism in the. From Wordnik.com. [John of Salisbury] Reference
The depragmatized Dutch Book Argument is a more promising justification for probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [Formal Representations of Belief] Reference
Here again it seems that the principle of determinism must give way to that of probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [Marco J. de Vries - An Existential–Spiritual View of the Nature of Man] Reference
One product of that dispute was Pascal's famous Provincial Letters, a merciless but beautifully-written satire of Jesuit probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [Casuistry] Reference
The second reading of his scepticism puts forth that Cicero's probabilism is of far greater significance in shaping the sceptical content of the. From Wordnik.com. [Michel de Montaigne] Reference
Christiaan Huygens pursued numerous Gassendist themes, including anti-Aristotelianism, probabilism, a method of hypothesis, and atomist matter theory. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Gassendi] Reference
Just as in probabilism you are stuck with A once you assign it probability 1, so you are basically stuck with A once you assign its negation rank . From Wordnik.com. [Formal Representations of Belief] Reference
The "correction" of laxism and probabilism is at least an indication that some of the principles used by the Jesuits and their School were liable to error. From Wordnik.com. [The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start] Reference
This may be so, but Carneades 'defense of probabilism can also be viewed as a natural extension of the Academy's tradition of dialectical argument (cf. Allen, 1994). From Wordnik.com. [Carneades] Reference
John has two main criticisms of the “pitiable fools” who have not embraced the probabilism of Aristotle's Topics and are still teaching the old logic of Boethius. From Wordnik.com. [John of Salisbury] Reference
The claim that one could direct one's intention away from what is otherwise a morally reprehensible action was consistent with the casuists 'defence of the doctrine of ˜probabilism™. From Wordnik.com. [Blaise Pascal] Reference
Perhaps probabilism and reliabilism can help us get out. From Wordnik.com. [The Barefoot Bum] Reference
According to St. Alphonsus, Abelly is "a classic in probabilism.". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Though probabilism per se, as a mere formal principle, endangers morality in. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
A point at which determinism and probabilism are mutually dependent but not mutually inclusive. From Wordnik.com. [blackrimglasses] Reference
As general of the Society, González felt himself obliged to fight probabilism among his subjects. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
In one or two places, by a series of clean cut sentences, he refutes all the errors of probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Yea, the very principles of probabilism and mental reservation which the Jesuits have espoused are antiethical. From Wordnik.com. [Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation] Reference
The doctrine of probabilism is founded upon the distinctions between opinions that are sure, less sure, or more sure. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Monks and Monasteries] Reference
The study of the laws of the mind shows us too clearly, in fact, their fluidity with regard to the laws of nature for us not to accept probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference
As Theologian-Penitentiary he edited a novel defense of probabilism under the caption "Il posesso, principio fondamentale per decidere i casi morali.". From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne] Reference
(cf. Brittain, 2001), and it gave rise to a form of probabilism, as a positively endorsed theory of knowledge, which is one of the New Academy's legacies. From Wordnik.com. [Carneades] Reference
In this treatise he defends the probabiliorism of his school, and in the heat of the controversy is unsparing in his denunciations of the doctrine of probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Bossuet said that nothing more formidable has ever been written against probabilism, and St. Alphonsus Ligouri found in it an exaggeration of rigorist tendencies. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
To enable the reader to form some sort of an independent judgment on this question, it is necessary to say a few words on the subject of casuistry and the doctrine of probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Monks and Monasteries] Reference
The single doctrine of probabilism, as Pascal abundantly proved, facilitates the commission of crime; for there is no perverse act which some casuist of note has not plausibly excused. From Wordnik.com. [Renaissance in Italy, Volumes 1 and 2 The Catholic Reaction] Reference
One cannot take the denunciations of Jesuitical "casuistry" and "probabilism" at their face value, but one can find in Jesuit works on ethics, and in some of their early works, very dangerous compromises with the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Age of the Reformation] Reference
1994, "Academic probabilism and Stoic epistemology,". From Wordnik.com. [Carneades] Reference
Innocent IX on probabilism, see chiefly Brucker, (Etudes religieuses. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
As an ardent adversary of probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
P. (R.) on the doctrine of probabilism, 61. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
Elbel advocates probabilism. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 16 [Supplement]] Reference
On probabilism, 122. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Index of Volume 3, January-June, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
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