Sentence examples for make more probable from inspiring English sources

Since Samuelson's redefinition became standard in the 1950s, when we say that an agent acts so as to maximize her utility, we mean by 'utility' simply whatever it is that the agent's behavior suggests her to consistently act so as to make more probable.

Why believe E-M Link 3 at all? Davidson's own case appeals to the claim that, in order for an experience to justify a belief, the experience must make more probable or entail the content of the belief (he also uses the further assumption that only propositional contents can do any such thing).

But while an acquittal was made more probable by the shift to Albany, it was not necessarily assured, though critics are bound to disagree.

One recurring presence in the report, weaving through a crowd of potential panics and crises that, according to its assessment, he has made more probable, is a figure who is planning to elbow his way through the halls of Davos itself: President Donald Trump.

Theories can be corroborated by their passing severe tests, but they are not thereby inductively confirmed or made more probable.

One obvious strategy for the defender of nonconceptual content would be to argue that a nonconceptual content can stand in logical or evidential relations (such as the relation of being consistent with, or making more probable) to another state even though it is not conceptually articulated (see, e.g., Heck 2000, Vision 2009).

It was made more probable by Germany's rising power and the fear that this created in Great Britain.

But it was also made more probable by Germany's fearful response to Russia's power, as well as myriad other factors, including human errors.

But since then, he says, new figures have come in that make 2012 more probable.

If \(H\) was very improbable to begin with, then \(E\) might not increase its probability enough to make it more probable than \(\neg H\).

The context seems to make it more probable that as other translators have assumed it is the Wicked Priest himself upon the "body" of whose "flesh" the "odious profaners committed horrors and vengeance".