Talk:Catholic probabilism

Latest comment: 4 years ago by Philgoetz in topic "The morally safer side"

The neutrality of this article is disputed.

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Since there is nothing on this talk page to indicate why the neutrality dispute tag is on the article, I'm removing the tag. --Bill Clark 23:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)Reply

The article should be simplified.

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I desire that this article be simplified somewhat, to make its content more accessible to the ordinary reader. 69.140.173.15 04:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)Reply

Ditto. I think the biggest problems with the current article are related to how it uses apparently ordinary English words, but with meanings other than their ordinary English meanings. For example, it's not clear what it means for a theological opinion to be "probable." (Does this mean that the opinion is held with some degree of mathematical probability? I would imagine that no theologian would say "With 45% probability, God disapproves of our eating shrimp on Tuesdays.") I've also marked a couple of instances of the word "liberty," which in this context must have some technical meaning different from liberty. I notice that these two problematic words are very close to the theologically relevant concepts of probity vs. libertinism, and maybe were mistranslated somewhere along the way to Wikipedia? But I assign that hypothesis a very low probability. :) --Quuxplusone (talk) 18:22, 8 June 2018 (UTC)Reply

Example

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Could we include an example of someone applying probabilism in a decision? RJFJR (talk) 15:51, 4 August 2008 (UTC)Reply

I concur. its like a math book that does not bother with using real numbers describe a triangle without a picture. is the rhythm method or the last second pull out forms of contraception? something like that.

Status quaestionis

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This is the section of the article that seems to still need work.

1) Why is the heading in Latin? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RJFJR (talkcontribs) 11:52, 18 July 2009

re:1) Solved. Now it's in English. PsychoInfiltrator (talk) 01:53, 15 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:17, 14 March 2012 (UTC)Reply



Catholic ProbabilismCatholic probabilism – No apparent reason for caps in title. Dicklyon (talk) 04:59, 7 March 2012 (UTC)Reply

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"The morally safer side"

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The article often talks about "the morally safer side", but never explains whether "morally safer" means following Church doctrine, or the more-probable judgement.Philgoetz (talk) 03:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC)Reply