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PROBABILIORISM

A theory in moral theology for resolving practical doubts. Probabiliorism maintains that one may follow the opinion favoring liberty when the reasons for this opinion are certainly more probable than those which favor the law. (Etym. Latin probabilior, more likely, more credible.)