probabilioristic

English

Etymology

From probabiliorism.

Adjective

probabilioristic (comparative more probabilioristic, superlative most probabilioristic)

1. (rare, philosophy) Of or pertaining to probabiliorism; stochastic.
   • 2000, Martin Rhonheimer, Natural Law and Practical Reason: A Thomist View of Moral Autonomy‎^[1], Fordham University Press - New York, page 308:

     In many cases, traditional arguments are represented as normative justifications that were never really meant as discursively justifying arguments, such as the formulations of moral systems in probabilistic or probabilioristic form, which do not arise from a context of norm justification.

   • 1996, Bernard P. Dauenhauer, Citizenship in a Fragile World‎^[2], Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, INC., page 130:

     Both to identify these issues and to respond to them, we need to adopt and institutionalize the use of a new casuistry that employs the probabilioristic standard to resolve doubts about the proper courses of action.

   • 2016, Robert Aleksander Maryks, Saint Cicero and the Jesuits: The Influence of the Liberal Arts on the Adoption of Moral Probabilism‎^[3], Ashgate Publishing:

     One of the most critical differences between tutoristic and probabilistic/probabilioristic reasoning is the role of opinions. As has been mentioned earlier, the Directory differed from other contemporary manuals, especially that of the Augustinian Navarrus.