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2018
‘Certainty’ is not a univocal term. It is predicated of people, and it is predicated of propositions. When certainty is predicated of a person, as in ‘Sally is certain that she parked her car in lot 359’, we are ascribing an attitude to Sally. We can say that a person, S, is psychologically certain of a proposition, p, just in case S believes p without
Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither
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‘Certainty’ is not a univocal term. It is predicated of people, and it is predicated of propositions. When certainty is predicated of a person, as in ‘Sally is certain that she parked her car in lot 359’, we are ascribing an attitude to Sally. We can say that a person, S, is psychologically certain of a proposition, p, just in case S believes p without
Carl C. Gaither, Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither
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The Certainty of Sense-Certainty
Idealistic Studies, 2010Commentators on the Phenomenology of Spirit have offered careful but conflicting accounts of Hegel's chapter on sense-certainty, either defending his starting point and analysis or challenging it on its own terms for presupposing too much. Much of the disagreement regarding both the subject matter and success of Hegel's chapter on sense-certainty can ...
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Objective Certainty and Objective Certainties
2004In his struggle to uncover the nature of our basic beliefs, Wittgenstein refers to them in many different ways in On Certainty: he thinks of them as propositions (OC 415), as rules (OC 95), as forming a picture (OC 94) and as ways of acting (OC 148). As propositions, they would be of a peculiar sort — hybrid propositions between logical and empirical ...
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2014
This paper marks an attempt at coming to grips with the notion of certainty and degrees thereof. Where certainty has to do with propositional truth, we have become aware of hefty criticism by philosophers critical of analytic philosophy, most prominently Richard Rorty (1967 in “The Linguistic Turn”).
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This paper marks an attempt at coming to grips with the notion of certainty and degrees thereof. Where certainty has to do with propositional truth, we have become aware of hefty criticism by philosophers critical of analytic philosophy, most prominently Richard Rorty (1967 in “The Linguistic Turn”).
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