Meaning of probabilify | Babel Free

Definitions

To render probable; to support or give confidence as to the likelihood of a conclusion.

Examples

“It might be objected that such premisses probabilify such a conclusion only in the absence of other evidence, that C's being B may be made more or less likely if we have⟳ other relevant information as well.”

“Given some plausible assumptions, the question⟳ of how testimony to the occurrence of an event that constitutes a miracle in the sense⟳ of Hume's first definition — say⟳, a resurrection — can serve⟳ to probabilify a theological doctrine can be divided into two sub-questions: First, how can the testimony probabilify the naturalistically characterized miracle event? And second, how can such a miracle probabilify the doctrine?”

“Thus if we would not be justified in saying that memories probabilify the remembered events in a world in which memories were known to be regularly false, we would not be justified in saying that memories probabilify the remembered events in a world in which we had no idea whether they were or not.”

“For this reason⟳ Owen queries the statement of W. R. Matthews that the theistic proofs make⟳ theism “highly probable” on the ground that since “the theistic postulate is wholly unique we cannot probabilify it by empirical evidence (as we can probabilify a scientific hypothesis).”

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