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  • adjective Mathematics Of or relating to the determination of expected probability based on incomplete information.

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  • adjective Alternative spelling of creedal.

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  • adjective of or relating to a creed

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Examples

  • In which case it is no more an “American agenda” – as Ingham asserts – than an African one. one is moved to wonder if this tertiary (at best) issue would have become the credal issue of the new millenium [sic] if not for the deep pockets of Howard Ahmonson and the so-called Institute for Religion and Democracy.

    A message from the alternate universe of Bishop Michael Ingham « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • It is, after all, credal to the American national understanding.

    Matthew Yglesias » Subsidizing Homeownership 2009

  • However, one is moved to wonder if this tertiary (at best) issue would have become the credal issue of the new millenium if not for the deep pockets of Howard Ahmonson and the so-called Institute for Religion and Democracy.

    A message from the alternate universe of Bishop Michael Ingham « Anglican Samizdat 2010

  • The Spirit comes from the Father and the Son (the phrasing here is that of the credal phrase of 5th century Spanish origin, Filioque; "from the Father through the Son," is the older formula, still used by the Eastern Catholic and Orthodox Churches).

    Trinity Sunday: Musings 2009

  • I happen to have a doctorate and I do not regard it as a statment of faith or a credal confession.

    All those liars for Jesus 2007

  • The idea is that whenever one is forced to bet on the pignistic level, the degrees of belief from the credal level are used to calculate (fair) betting ratios that satisfy the probability axioms.

    Formal Representations of Belief Huber, Franz 2008

  • A number of philosophers [24] have found very plausible the idea that, in asserting that p, one represents oneself as knowing that p. Here, very quickly, is one route to this idea: If our talk is governed by ˜the Cooperative Principle™ (CP), then ˜saying™ itself presumes one's striving to fulfill certain credal-epistemic conditions: chief among the Gricean maxims is that of Quality,

    Epistemic Contextualism Rysiew, Patrick 2007

  • Up to now, we have in practice taken for granted that the State is not the source of morality and legitimacy but a system that brokers, mediates and attempts to co-ordinate the moral resources of those specific communities, the merely local and the credal or issue-focused, which actually make up the national unit.

    Both Crosses and Veils Must be Allowed - Times Article 2006

  • Up to now, we have in practice taken for granted that the State is not the source of morality and legitimacy but a system that brokers, mediates and attempts to co-ordinate the moral resources of those specific communities, the merely local and the credal or issue-focused, which actually make up the national unit.

    Both Crosses and Veils Must be Allowed - Times Article 2006

  • This poses an uncomfortable dilemma for theologically liberal Christians like those of us you can still find in non-credal or heterodox denominations: Do we have a way to engage in ecumenical dialogue anymore, especially when our denominations are not set up to make truth claims or negotiate them with other denominations?

    Philocrites: Anglicans turn UK Unitarians out of cathedral. 2006

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