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Probabilist

Prob′a-bil-ist

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
probabiliste
.]
1.
One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.
2.
(Casuistry)
One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.

Definition 2024


probabilist

probabilist

English

Noun

probabilist (plural probabilists)

  1. Someone who studies probability, a particular branch of mathematics.
  2. A follower of probabilism.

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