Moral Theology: Its Method and Masters

Laloux

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Added because Wouters names him among the defenders of the system of compensation (Manuale I, n. 225).

His Moral System, as Our Authors Report It

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Compensationist
Counted among them by 2 of our authorsWouters, Manuale I, n. 225; Prümmer, Manuale I, n. 344
“Since not a few difficulties are found in the aforesaid systems, certain authors devised a new system for solving doubt from the principle of sufficient reason, or compensation: thus, among others, Manier, Laloux, Potton.”Tanquerey sets out his system of compensation and weighs itTanquerey, Fundamental Moral Theology, n. 415
“Laloux adorned that theory with the name Compensative Probabilism”Ecalle: he gave the system of compensation its name, compensative probabilismEcalle (the 1884 editor of Billuart), Dissertation VII (Ecalle’s), On compensative probabilism, n. 9

No article in the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913).