Redundancy in jet engines raises probability that an aircraft is not left powerless after a bird strike and can make a safe emergency landing at an airport.
Building on insights of Reichenbach, Salmon noted that there are cases in which giving information that raises probability is not explanatory: the probability that there is a storm goes up when one is told that the barometer is falling, but the fall of the barometer does not explain the occurrence of the storm.
A unit increase in each of the three measures raises the probability of nonprofit startups by 0.5%, raises probability of for-profit startup by 4.2%, and lowers the probability of wage work by 4.7%.
Since the addition of disjuncts can raise probability indefinitely, the epistemicists correctly predict that we can hedge our way to full assertibility.
With his killing they've raised the probability of these attacks resuming, as is happening now.
If a market investment provides a financial incentive for that person to act, the market has raised the probability of the assassination or terrorist attack.
We believe improving cashflow and a tough short term outlook have also raised the probability of a leveraged buyout or management buyout.
Economists at investment bank Citi raised the probability of Brexit from 20-30% to 30-40% after Johnson and the justice secretary, Michael Gove, announced their support for the leave campaign.
Set against that are the enigmatic questions raised by probability: if the universe was just a quantum accident, a random event, the odds against it containing any appreciable order are, says Davies "ludicrously small".
