Chapter — Billuart, Summa Summae · from Schola Thomistica
On the Probability and Choice of Opinions
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to follow a probable or more probable opinion concerning the objective honesty of an act.
sequi opinionem probabilem aut probabiliorem de honestate objectiva actus.
Within this chapter
- Whether it is licit to follow the less probable and less safe opinion, in concurrence with one more probable and safer?
- Whether, in the conflict of two equally probable opinions on the objective honesty of an act, it is lawful to follow the less safe favoring liberty, leaving the safer favoring the law?
- Whether it is lawful to follow the more probable but less safe opinion, in concurrence with one less probable but safer, where only the objective honesty of the act is at stake?
- Various little questions on the present matter briefly resolved