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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024prob•a•bi•lism (prob′ə bə liz′əm),USA pronunciation n. - Philosophythe doctrine, introduced by the Skeptics, that certainty is impossible and that probability suffices to govern faith and practice.
- Religion[Rom. Cath. Theol.]a theory that in cases of doubt as to the lawfulness of an action, it is permissible to follow a sound opinion favoring its lawfulness. Cf. equiprobabilism.
- French probabilisme. See probable, -ism
- 1835–45
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