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/ˌpɹɒb.ə.bɪˈlɪs.tɪk/
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/ˌpɹɑ.bə.bɪˈlɪs.tɪk/
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/ˌpɹɒb.ə.bɪˈlɪs.tɪk/
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/ˌpɹɔb.ə.bɪˈlɪs.tɪk/
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/ˌpɹɒb.ə.bəˈləs.tək/
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[ˌpɹɔ̟b.ə.bəˈləs.tək]
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Adjective
Of, pertaining to, or derived using probability.
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Richard Hanania—one of those weird right-wing randos who appear on the scene out of nowhere every few months, suddenly raised to Twitter prominence for some occult algorithmic/dark-money reason that we will never get a good answer about—wrote a long newsletter in which he endorses opposing The Current Thing as a “heuristic”: “I would argue that a probabilistic approach suggests that we should be anti-current thing.”
Johnson explained that absolute gauging assumed that everything that could go wrong would go wrong at the same time, resulting in the train hitting the platform. In contrast, probabilistic gauging says that everything can go wrong, but not at the same time. For the Pitsea '357', probabilistic gauging estimated a 0.00001% chance of the train hitting the platform. That seems much closer to the daily life of Pitsea Platform 2.
Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic doctrine of probabilism.
Adjective
of or relating to the Roman Catholic philosophy of probabilism
of or relating to or based on probability
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probabilistic quantum theory