probabilify

Verb

probabilify (third-person singular simple present probabilifies, present participle probabilifying, simple past and past participle probabilified)

1. To render probable; to support or give confidence as to the likelihood of a conclusion.
   • It might be objected that such premisses probabilify such a conclusion only in the absence of other evidence, that C's being B may be made more or less likely if we have other relevant information as well.1973, John Leslie Mackie, Truth, Probability and Paradox: Studies in Philosophical Logic, →ISBN
   • Given some plausible assumptions, the question of how testimony to the occurrence of an event that constitutes a miracle in the sense of Hume's first definition — say, a resurrection — can serve to probabilify a theological doctrine can be divided into two sub-questions: First, how can the...2000, John Earman, Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles, →ISBN, page 65