Probabilistic

Regulation by predicting what's probable has been evolving since 1975, when the NRC and reactor owners began moving from a traditional rulebook form of regulation -- involving specific requirements, for instance, about equipment and procedures -- toward what is known as probabilistic risk assessment, or PRA. ❋ The Center For Public Integrity (2011)

Instead, all you need is to design agents capable of exhibiting various behaviors and give them certain probabilistic tendencies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Because the flow of all future paths is what is called probabilistic, known in general but not exactly, the exact future is not contained within the present. ❋ GERALD L. SCHROEDER (2001)

Trygve Haavelmo was able to show convincingly that both fundamental problems could be solved if economic theories were formulated in probabilistic terms. ❋ Unknown (1989)

“Inexact sciences like economics advance funeral by funeral,” Samuelson said, and he brought up one of his teachers at Chicago, Frank Knight, a brilliant scholar who is today remembered primarily for the distinction he drew between risk, which can be assessed in probabilistic terms, and uncertainty, which can’t be represented mathematically. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One good reason is that natural selection and drift are co-products of the same process, namely a probabilistic sampling process (Brandon and Carson 1996, Matthen and Ariew 2002, Walsh et al. 2002). ❋ Scott A. Nicholson (2009)

Finally, the third possibility, which might be referred to as a probabilistic or Bayesian approach, starts out from probabilistic premises, and then attempts to show that it follows deductively, via axioms of probability theory, that it is unlikely that God exists. ❋ Tooley, Michael (2009)

Proponents of populational interpretations (acausal or not) generally endorse a so-called probabilistic propensity definition of fitness which we shall now examine. ❋ Rosenberg, Alexander (2008)

Team her with another lifelong greenie, a man with a doctorate in organic chemistry who grew up on an Idaho ranch without electricity and whose day job, over the course of a long career, has included pioneering something called probabilistic risk assessment the underpinnings of climate-change analysis, but that's another story. ❋ GayandRight (2007)

Team her with another lifelong greenie, a man with a doctorate in organic chemistry who grew up on an Idaho ranch without electricity and whose day job, over the course of a long career, has included pioneering something called probabilistic risk assessment (the underpinnings of climate-change analysis, but that's another story). ❋ Unknown (2007)

The industry has performed complex mathematical analyses called probabilistic risk assessments to measure the likelihood of a serious accident, says Bell. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Rather, gamers are better at making quick and accurate decisions based on evidence extracted from their surroundings (a skill known as probabilistic inference). ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the I-slate (which would be roughly the same size as its chalk counterpart) would use a probabilistic version called probabilistic complementary metal-oxide semiconductor ❋ Unknown (2009)

Even if we are not sure if a crisis will actually happen, it is a "probabilistic" externality today (i.e., a risk), which is still an externality. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Supreme Court in Sokolow held that "probabilistic" facts describing "personal characteristics" of drug couriers -- such as the cash payment for tickets, a short trip to a major source city for drugs, nervousness, type of attire, and unchecked luggage may in fact be relevant in certain investigations of ongoing criminal activity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, this is a purely mathematical concept so it has little directly to do with materialism one way or the other. (also note that there are some kinds of algorithms that go beyond the Turing definition, such as probabilistic algorithms, but that's not important for this discussion). ❋ Unknown (2007)