different between probability vs acatalepsy

English

Etymology

From Middle French probabilité, from Latin prob?bilit?s (“probability, credibility”), from prob?bilis (“probable, credible”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /p??b??b?l?ti/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /p??b??b?l??i/
• Hyphenation: prob?a?bil?i?ty
• Rhymes: -?l?ti

Noun

Wikibooks

probability (plural probabilities)

1. The state of being probable; likelihood.
2. An event that is likely to occur.
3. The relative likelihood of an event happening.
4. (mathematics) A number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening.

Derived terms

Related terms

• probable

Translations

See also

• odds
• possibility
• verisimilitude
• credence

Further reading

• probability at OneLook Dictionary Search
• probability in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• probability in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?- (a-) + ????????????? (katalambánein, “to seize”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /e??kæ.t?.l?p.si/, /??kæ.t?.l?p.si/

Noun

acatalepsy (uncountable)

1. Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

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