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Catholic Probabilism - Status of The Question - Arguments Against Probabilism
... When the less safe opinion is notably and certainly less probable than the safe opinion, there is no true probability in favour of liberty, since the stronger destroy the force of the weaker reasons ... Hence probabilists cannot consistently maintain that it is safe in practice to act on the less safe opinion which is also the less probable ... does not of necessity destroy the solid probability of the less probable opinion ...
... When the less safe opinion is notably and certainly less probable than the safe opinion, there is no true probability in favour of liberty, since the stronger destroy the force of the weaker reasons ... Hence probabilists cannot consistently maintain that it is safe in practice to act on the less safe opinion which is also the less probable ... does not of necessity destroy the solid probability of the less probable opinion ...
Famous quotes containing the words opinion and/or safe:
“The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity—much less dissent.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no life lives for ever;
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)
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