probabilify
To render probable; to support or give confidence as to the likelihood of a conclusion.
Verb
- To render probable; to support or give confidence as to the likelihood of a conclusion.
- It might be objected that such premisses probabilify such a conclusion only in the absence of other evidence, that C's being B may be made more or less likely if we have other relevant information as well. - 1973, John...
- Given some plausible assumptions, the question of how testimony to the occurrence of an event that constitutes a miracle in the sense of Hume's first definition — say, a resurrection — can serve to probabilify a...
- Thus if we would not be justified in saying that memories probabilify the remembered events in a world in which memories were known to be regularly false, we would not be justified in saying that memories probabilify...
Origin
From probable + -ify.