The debate on probable : : opinions in the scholastic tradition / / by Rudolf Schuessler.
In The Debate on Probable Opinions in the Scholastic Tradition , Rudolf Schuessler portrays scholastic approaches to a qualified disagreement of opinions. The book outlines how scholastic regulations concerning the use of opinions changed in the early modern era, giving rise to an extensive debate o...
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : Brill,, 2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Brill's Studies in Intellectual History
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (527 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Medieval Antecedents
- The Road to Probabilism—A New Doctrine on the Use of Opinions
- Probabilism and Anti-Probabilism—Interlocked Lifecycles
- The New Dual Concept of Probability and the Demise of the Endoxon
- Selection Criteria, Common Opinion, and Ordinary Persons
- Stand-Alone Authority and Majorities as Guide to Truth
- Ancient and Modern Opinions—Which to Prefer?
- The Great Debate on Probable Opinions (1656–1700)
- Delimiting the Space of the Reasonable—The Challenge of Probable Probability and Slight Probability
- Believing What We Want—A New Doxastic Voluntarism
- Assessing Probabilism—Between Liberty and Tutelage
- The Scholastic Background of Modern Probability
- Back Matter
- References
- Index.