Sentence examples for is merely probable from inspiring English sources

The stronger kind resembles demonstration but the connection between ideas is merely probable.

In the fifteenth and final chapter, Pomponazzi takes the surprising tack of stating that the philosophical conclusions which he has developed and explored throughout the treatise are merely probable, in contrast to the certain truth taught by Church doctrine, which maintains that the human soul is immortal.

The inference is only probable.

"'Tis from the prospect of pain or pleasure that the aversion or propensity arises... ...... (ibid).. Probable reasoning is merely the discovering of causal connections, and knowledge that A causes B never concerns us if we are indifferent to A and to B. Thus, neither demonstrative nor probable reasoning alone causes action.

The questions readers ought to ask when confronting a "what-if" as opposed to "what-is" article are: Does the writer make it clear what is known, what is probable, and what is merely possible?

If, as is most probable, the flub is Mr. Bellow's, it is merely a little sad.

It is merely foolish.

It is merely expressive.

That is merely surprising.

It is merely being human.

That is merely an excerpt.