Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In Roman Catholic theology, the doctrine that it is lawful to act in a certain manner only when there is a more probable opinion in favor of such action than against it, so that when there are two equally probable opinions, one for and the other against liberty of action, it is not lawful to accept the former opinion and follow one's inclinations. See probabilism, probabilist.
Wiktionary
- n. The belief that man is fated to do what is almost certainly correct.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The doctrine of the probabiliorists.
Examples
“González received encouragement from Innocent XI, who had become pope in 1676, and by his order, the Holy Office issued a decree, in 1680, ordering the superiors of the Society to allow their subjects to defend probabiliorism, a permission that had never been denied.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“He himself had composed a work in which he defended probabiliorism, assigning, however, an exaggerated importance to the subjective estimation of the degree of probability.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“In this treatise he defends the probabiliorism of his school, and in the heat of the controversy is unsparing in his denunciations of the doctrine of probabilism.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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