Complementational
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Pertaining to complementation. not-comparable
"As Jonathan Cohen points out, ". . .though aleatory probability [i.e., the probability involved in games of chance] always requires a complementational principle for negation and a multiplicative principle for conjunction, there are contexts in which credibility conforms to non-Pascalian [i.e., nonaleatory] principles" (1989, p. 13)."
Example
More examples"As Jonathan Cohen points out, ". . .though aleatory probability [i.e., the probability involved in games of chance] always requires a complementational principle for negation and a multiplicative principle for conjunction, there are contexts in which credibility conforms to non-Pascalian [i.e., nonaleatory] principles" (1989, p. 13)."
Etymology
From complementation + -al.
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