section_path: Etymology
section_name: Etymology
paragraph_text: Etymology
  
  The word probability derives from the Latin probabilitas, which can also mean " probity ", a measure of the authority of a witness in a legal case in Europe, and often correlated with the witness's nobility. In a sense, this differs much from the modern meaning of probability, which in contrast is a measure of the weight of empirical evidence, and is arrived at from inductive reasoning and statistical inference.