...announcing that it is: The method by which we are enabled to become certain of what is concrete; ... It is the cumulation of probabilities, independent...numerous and various for such conversion, even were they convertible.38 In order to avoid misunderstanding it is worth dwelling on what he means in this context...

...normative-factual inquiry that is the trial. It is holistic and interpretive. It can grasp 'the cumulations of probabilities . . . too fine to avail separately,...and circuitous to be convertible into syllogisms.' It is likely to 'trust rather in the multitude and variety of its arguments than to the conclusiveness...

...is (also) guided in religious affairs by a method described as 'cumulating probabilities.' They are independent of each other, arising out of the nature...various for such conversion, even were they convertible. (The ability of the mind to discover certitude in a mass of converging probabilities is termed by Newman...

...unconditional assent through an informal inferential process that involves the accumulation and convergence of probabilities "too fine to avail separately, too subtle...syllogisms, too numerous and various for such conversion. "S7 None of these separate factors may admit of demonstration, but each carries with it "independent...

...unconditional assent through an informal inferential process that involves the accumulation and convergence of probabilities "too fine to avail separately, too subtle...into syllogisms, too numerous and various for such conversion."57 None of these separate factors may admit of demonstration, but each carries with it...

...probabilities as the case moves toward conclusion: requiring the resolution of "the cumulations of probabilities . . . too fine to avail separately,...and circuitous to be convertible into syllogisms" (Newman, 193o, 288). But more than the simple complexity of the assumed calculation suggests that the...

...cannot determine— the limit of converging probabilities, and the reasons sufficient for a proof. ... It is the cumulation of probabilities, independent...circuitous to be convertible into syllogisms, too numerous for euch conversion, even were they convertible. As a man's portrait differs from a sketch of him,...