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Webster 1913 Edition


Probabilist

Prob′a-bil-ist

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
probabiliste
.]
1.
One who maintains that certainty is impossible, and that probability alone is to govern our faith and actions.
2.
(Casuistry)
One who maintains that a man may do that which has a probability of being right, or which is inculcated by teachers of authority, although other opinions may seem to him still more probable.