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probabilist, n. and a.|ˈprɒbəbɪlɪst|
Also 7 probablist.
[= F. probabiliste (17th c.), ad. mod.L. probābilist-a, f. L. probābil-is probable: see -ist.]
A. n.
1. One who holds the casuistic doctrine of probabilism.
1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 93 Then indeed I shall not refuse to..rank them [men who call us Papists] in Dr. H's Predicament of Probablists. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Probabilists, a sect, or division, among the Romanists,..holding, that a man is not always obliged to take the more probable side, but may take the less probable, if it be but barely probable. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 1931 In 1665 Alexander VII felt compelled to disavow a number of the propositions of the Probabilists.
2. Philos. One who holds the philosophical theory of probabilism. More generally, one who holds any theory of probabilism (cf. probabilism 3).
1847Webster, Probabilist. 1. A term applied to those who maintain that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions. 1965H. & M. Sprout Ecol. Perspective vi. 107 The common-sense probabilist assumes that the individual applies his environmental knowledge rationally to the choice of ends achievable.
3. An expert or specialist in probability theory.
1973Nature 1 June p. i/1 (Advt.), Forty-six leading probabilists are represented.
B. adj. = probabilistic a. 2.
1960E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. vi. 93 Linguists who become automatic translation programmers will have to be trained on probabilist methods. 1970L. J. Cohen Implications of Induction i. 29 The attack mounted here against probabilist theories of inductive syntax. |