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  • noun Plural form of probabilist.

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Examples

  • On the other hand statisticians, probabilists and Hilbertinists “visualize” their own way?

    Why Can’t We Visualize More Than Three Dimensions? Sean 2009

  • The space scenario also confounds probabilists, because the crash of an Iridium satellite with an inactive Soviet satellite has increased the chance of future collisions by an untold margin.

    The Odds When Birds, Subs and Satellites Collide 2009

  • The rigorists, tutiorists and probabiliorists mainly Dominicans and Franciscans liked to take this decree as proof for the condemnation of probabilism but the probabilists themselves considered it as condemning only laxism.

    The Society of Scholastics -- online courses about to start 2009

  • And only in the twentieth century do probabilists make important advances over Arcelius.

    Epistemic Paradoxes Sorensen, Roy 2006

  • The biggest casuistical dispute of all time was the dispute between the Jesuits (who were largely probabilists at the time) and the Jansenists (who were unanimously rigorists).

    Casuistry 2005

  • He assigns such probabilities also to nonrepeatable events, and in his opinion it is this logical probability which most probabilists have in mind.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

  • His work intro - duces a wealth of clarifying concepts, also of a purely mathematical nature, which are used today by most probabilists.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

  • Kolmogorov's set-theoretical foundations were accepted gladly by the majority of probabilists as the definitive solution of the problem of foundations of probability.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

  • De Moivre, the first of the great analytic probabilists, was, as a mathematician, superior to both Jakob

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

  • The defense of probabilism aroused a storm of controversy, and among the noted anti-probabilists who engaged in the discussion may be mentioned the Bishop of Assisi (1798), Cajetan

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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