Steve Greenleaf

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The Anglicans tended toward probabiliorism, the position between probabilism and tutiorism that holds that the more probable opinion must be followed. Donne complained that probabilism indulges the human propensity to intellectual laziness: “To which indisposition of ours the casuists are so indulgent, as that they allow a conscience to adhere to any probable opinion against a more probable, and do never bind him to seek out which is more probable, but give him leave to dissemble and to depart from it, if by mischance he come to know it.”
The Science of Conjecture: Evidence and Probability Before Pascal
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