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Probabiliorism

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 280 words | Copyright

Probabiliorism. The system of moral theology based on the principle that, if the licitness or illicitness of an action is in doubt, it is lawful to follow the opinion favouring liberty only when it is more probable than the opinion favouring the law. See also the following entry.

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