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2009
When examining the potential outcomes a given event may hold, a person is likely to approximate the probability of each possible result. Taken into consideration by the individual is the degree to which any of these outcomes may be certain. That is, although the benefit derived from an event with a lesser or unknown likelihood of occurring may be much ...
Strawderman, Lesley, Schaefer, Lacey
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When examining the potential outcomes a given event may hold, a person is likely to approximate the probability of each possible result. Taken into consideration by the individual is the degree to which any of these outcomes may be certain. That is, although the benefit derived from an event with a lesser or unknown likelihood of occurring may be much ...
Strawderman, Lesley, Schaefer, Lacey
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2018
AbstractIn the philosophical literature on the definition of lying, the analysis is generally restricted to cases of flat-out belief. This chapter considers lies involving partial beliefs (beliefs ranging from mere uncertainty to absolute certainty).
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AbstractIn the philosophical literature on the definition of lying, the analysis is generally restricted to cases of flat-out belief. This chapter considers lies involving partial beliefs (beliefs ranging from mere uncertainty to absolute certainty).
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The Subject of Certainty and the Certainty of the Subject
International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2014The history of philosophy would not have needed to wait for Heidegger if Hegel had taught us that the transformation from hypokeimenon to subiectum introduced by Descartes is due to the transformation from truth to certainty, which he introduces too. So, taking for subject this certainty, which makes the certainty of subject, we aim to understand that ...
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The Nature of Certainty in Wittgenstein's On Certainty
2013In this thesis I examine the concept of certainty in the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, with a focus on the collection of remarks entitled On Certainty. In the first part I examine two essays of G.E. Moore that initiated Wittgenstein’s discussion of certainty and critique of Moore’s two essays.
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