Sentence examples for merely probable from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the most skeptical of the philosophes was the great French mathematician Condorcet (1743 94), who held that mathematics, physics, and moral philosophies were all merely probable.

This issue is a hot one, thanks to Royal Dutch/Shell's continuing crisis over the reclassification in January of one-fifth of its "proven" reserves as merely "probable".

Demea opposes him, maintaining that the argument's merely probable conclusion demeans God's mystery and majesty.

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

Others are, at best, merely probable or persuasive, and still others do not even reach that level.

Crucially, topical arguments were originally seen as merely probable, contrasting with the necessary truth-preservation of syllogisms.

The inference is only probable.

The Discourse on Miracles took the position that miracles provide merely a "probable proof" of revelation.

"Pre-emptive" military strikes must meet a high standard of justification: the attack being pre-empted must be imminent, not merely conjectured or probable in the long run.

Possible, but not probable.

In August, the Justice Department released a letter of findings charging that the police in Meridian routinely arrested children at schools without probable cause, merely on the referral of school personnel.