equiprobabilism

noun

equi·​probabilism

as at equiangular +

: a theory that in moral questions where certainty is impossible and the arguments for both courses are equiprobable either course may be followed compare probabiliorism, probabilism

Word History

Etymology

from equiprobable, after English probable: probabilism

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