Talk:Catholic probabilism

The neutrality of this article is disputed.
Since there is nothing on this talk page to indicate why the neutrality dispute tag is on the article, I'm removing the tag. --Bill Clark 23:09, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

The article should be simplified.
A moral system, to be of any serious utility, must be universal, so that not merely experts in moral science but also ordinary people can utilize it.

I desire that this article be simplified somewhat, to make its content more accessible to the ordinary reader. 69.140.173.15 04:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Ditto. I think the biggest problems with the current article are related to how it uses apparently ordinary English words, but with meanings other than their ordinary English meanings. For example, it's not clear what it means for a theological opinion to be "probable." (Does this mean that the opinion is held with some degree of mathematical probability? I would imagine that no theologian would say "With 45% probability, God disapproves of our eating shrimp on Tuesdays.") I've also marked a couple of instances of the word "liberty," which in this context must have some technical meaning different from liberty. I notice that these two problematic words are very close to the theologically relevant concepts of probity vs. libertinism, and maybe were mistranslated somewhere along the way to Wikipedia? But I assign that hypothesis a very low probability. :) --Quuxplusone (talk) 18:22, 8 June 2018 (UTC)

Example
Could we include an example of someone applying probabilism in a decision? RJFJR (talk) 15:51, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

I concur. its like a math book that does not bother with using real numbers describe a triangle without a picture. is the rhythm method or the last second pull out forms of contraception? something like that.

Status quaestionis
This is the section of the article that seems to still need work.

1) Why is the heading in Latin? —Preceding unsigned comment added by RJFJR (talk • contribs) 11:52, 18 July 2009

re:1) Solved. Now it's in English. PsychoInfiltrator (talk) 01:53, 15 October 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 

The result of the move request was: page moved. Vegaswikian (talk) 01:17, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Catholic Probabilism → Catholic probabilism – No apparent reason for caps in title. Dicklyon (talk) 04:59, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support. Agree, can't see why it's capitalised. Jenks24 (talk) 23:20, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support - thanks to Dicklyon for finding yet another one in the WP:Religion area. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:15, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

"The morally safer side"
The article often talks about "the morally safer side", but never explains whether "morally safer" means following Church doctrine, or the more-probable judgement.Philgoetz (talk) 03:42, 27 November 2019 (UTC)