laxist

This may be the unforseen consequences of Yemini President Ali Abdullah Saleh's laxist policy allowing foreign Sunni militants haven in Yemen (reportedly in exchange for their help in fighting the Shia Houthis).

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup 2009

For want of better terms, let's call (1) the "rigorist" position and (2) the "laxist" position.

Archive 2007-05-01 Mike L 2007

For want of better terms, let's call (1) the "rigorist" position and (2) the "laxist" position.

Salvation at the golden mean Mike L 2007

However, not only is this decision-theoretic rigorism psychologically impossible e.g., as a matter of fact our grasp on probabilities, risks, gains, etc., isn't as clear and precise as this; everyone is, as a matter of fact, laxist and not rigorist about matters of indifference, etc. it doesn't model rational decisions except in cases where the higher expected utility is known to be the only safe conclusion.

Decision Theory as Casuistry II 2005

An epistemological rigorist holds the view that nothing should be accepted unless it is certain, i.e., the only conclusions that are safe enough that holding them is rational are conclusions that strictly meet a particular standard of high certainty; an epistemological laxist holds the view that anything may be regarded as safe enough for rational belief if there is any authoritatively recognized evidence for it at all; and, of course, there are positions between.

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

An epistemological rigorist holds the view that nothing should be accepted unless it is certain, i.e., the only conclusions that are safe enough that holding them is rational are conclusions that strictly meet a particular standard of high certainty; an epistemological laxist holds the view that anything may be regarded as safe enough for rational belief if there is any authoritatively recognized evidence for it at all; and, of course, there are positions between.

Decision Theory as Casuistry II 2005

These could all be formulated in terms of liberty and playing it safe: a laxist holds that you are at liberty to follow any opinion that is probable; the others gradually increase the field in which you are required to play it safe.

Casuistry 2005

* If you hold that any opinion with at least some probability may be followed, you are a laxist.

Casuistry 2005

However, not only is this decision-theoretic rigorism psychologically impossible e.g., as a matter of fact our grasp on probabilities, risks, gains, etc., isn't as clear and precise as this; everyone is, as a matter of fact, laxist and not rigorist about matters of indifference, etc. it doesn't model rational decisions except in cases where the higher expected utility is known to be the only safe conclusion.

Archive 2005-09-01 2005

While the Church of Rome as a whole thus moved away under external pressures from the rigorist toward the laxist, casuistical pole in moral theology, developments took place within her own house which further strengthened this tendency and created in the Jesuit Order a power - ful internal vanguard of an even more extreme laxist and casuistical movement.

CASUISTRY WERNER STARK 1968