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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or based on probabilism.
- adjective Of, based on, or affected by probability, randomness, or chance.
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- adjective mathematics Of, pertaining to, or derived using
probability . - adjective religion Of or pertaining to the
Roman Catholic doctrine ofprobabilism .
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- adjective of or relating to or based on probability
- adjective of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism
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Examples
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Instead, all you need is to design agents capable of exhibiting various behaviors and give them certain probabilistic tendencies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Further to Andrew Ferguson on Behavioral Economics
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Regulation by predicting what's probable has been evolving since 1975, when the NRC and reactor owners began moving from a traditional rulebook form of regulation -- involving specific requirements, for instance, about equipment and procedures -- toward what is known as probabilistic risk assessment, or PRA.
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Because the flow of all future paths is what is called probabilistic, known in general but not exactly, the exact future is not contained within the present.
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Because the flow of all future paths is what is called probabilistic, known in general but not exactly, the exact future is not contained within the present.
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Trygve Haavelmo was able to show convincingly that both fundamental problems could be solved if economic theories were formulated in probabilistic terms.
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“Inexact sciences like economics advance funeral by funeral,” Samuelson said, and he brought up one of his teachers at Chicago, Frank Knight, a brilliant scholar who is today remembered primarily for the distinction he drew between risk, which can be assessed in probabilistic terms, and uncertainty, which can’t be represented mathematically.
Matthew Yglesias » My Theory’s Great, Except for the Times It Doesn’t Work
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One good reason is that natural selection and drift are co-products of the same process, namely a probabilistic sampling process (Brandon and Carson 1996, Matthen and Ariew 2002, Walsh et al. 2002).
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Finally, the third possibility, which might be referred to as a probabilistic or Bayesian approach, starts out from probabilistic premises, and then attempts to show that it follows deductively, via axioms of probability theory, that it is unlikely that God exists.
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Proponents of populational interpretations (acausal or not) generally endorse a so-called probabilistic propensity definition of fitness which we shall now examine.
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Team her with another lifelong greenie, a man with a doctorate in organic chemistry who grew up on an Idaho ranch without electricity and whose day job, over the course of a long career, has included pioneering something called probabilistic risk assessment the underpinnings of climate-change analysis, but that's another story.
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