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.
An ever increasing demand for lighter rotating machinery and higher operating speeds results in a raised probability of instabilities.
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.
By looking at the average profile in the high risk cluster 1, we might see for example a higher than average probability of being in the highest intensity category, the longest duration category and a raised probability of being a current smoker.
This is best understood, I believe, as a distinction between raising the probability of murder to 1 from something less than 1, on the one hand, and raising the probability of murder from 0 to something higher but still less than 1.
Mr. Summers warned Mr. Obama that "the deteriorating economic and financial situation is raising the probability that investments made under TARP will incur losses".
On this account, event X can indeterministicly cause event Y by raising the probability that Y will occur.
Still, Mackie notes, raising the probability of God's existence is not of great assistance, for "the hypothesis of divine creation is very unlikely".
