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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Probabilism"”.
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Justifying Bayesianism
… credences. According to the first claim, probabilism, rational credences form a probability function. According to the second claim, conditionalization, rational credences update by conditionalizing on new evidence. The simplicity and elegance of classical Bayesianism make it an attractive …
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Emergency Contraception, Catholic Hospitals, and Rape
… Catholics are not aware of the moral method of probabilism, it is a legitimate system of moral discernment within the Catholic tradition which asserts that an uncertain moral obligation cannot be imposed as though it were certain. This paper argues that probabilism is a uniquely appropriate …
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Constructive skepticism and the philosophy of science of Gassendi and Locke (Pierre Gassendi, John Locke)
… motivates the search for underlying causes, a probabilism about theory confirmation, and a ranking of knowledge-types by degrees of certainty. The similarities of their views illuminate the influence of Gassendi's writings on Locke. Their differences show us their varying conceptions of …
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<i>Academicus ille Augustinus</i>? Augustine’s Rehabilitation of Academic skepticism
… literally. Rehabilitating Academic doubt and probabilism, Augustine portrays Scripture as the true mystagogue, inviting us to pursue its hidden truth in a lifelong cycle of seeking and finding: the true fulfillment of Cicero’s <em>Hortensius.</em></p>
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'Serious Lots': Chance and Choice in Early Modern English Literature
… of the goddess ‘Fortuna’, to the calculated probabilism of mathematical risk. Instead, it posits that it is not chance which changed in the period, so much as our attitude toward it: our tolerance of its instabilities, our eagerness for its rewards. Taking the form of a series of case studies …
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Environmental Determinism: Broken Paradigm or Viable Perspective?.
<p>The research was to examine the issue of environmental determinism. It was an ideology that was prevalent throughout the early decades of the 20<sup>th</sup> century that held that the natural environment was responsible for virtually all human development. It helped bring the study of geography …