Steve Greenleaf

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On the issue of the doubting conscience, Taylor is firmly for probabiliorism, laying down the rule, The greater probability destroys the less. His argument against probabilism is that “the safety [of an opinion] must increase consequently to the probability, it is against charity to omit that, which is safer, and to choose that, which is less safe.”
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
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