| 释义 |
probabilify, v.|prɒbəˈbɪlɪfaɪ|
[f. L. probābil-is probable a. + -ify.]
trans. To give probability to; to give (some proposition) reasonable grounds for being true. So probabilifiˈcation, the action or process of rendering probable; hence probabiliˈfiable, probabilifiˈcatory adjs.
1936H. H. Price Truth & Corrigibility 9 It is probabilification which will chiefly concern us. Ibid. 16 Some parts of the total body of evidence either imply or probabilify other parts. Ibid. 18 A system where the mutual support..is only of the probabilificatory kind. 1949W. Kneale Probability & Induction i. 11 Some conjunctions containing A would not probabilify B to the same degree or even at all. Ibid., Admittedly the notion of probabilification requires further elucidation. 1953Mind LXII. 455 Probabilifiable by sense-perception. 1966A. Flew God & Philos. vii. 148 A traveller's tale not probabilified by any promising theory. 1973J. L. Mackie Truth, Probability & Paradox v. 213 Equivalent contraposition does not hold even for probabilification between propositions. |