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to grok Certainty

Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2022 6:55 pm
by Advocate
Certainty always and only means certain Enough for a specific use-case. When you reach that level of sufficiency there is no further reason to continue.

There are two kinds of certainty, justified and unjustified.

Knowledge is justified belief, and that justification is subject to the limitations of the information available to you as well as the physical capacity of your brain.

Unjustified belief is called faith, and is the polar opposite of knowledge.

Re: to grok Certainty

Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:38 am
by Atla
Advocate wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 6:55 pm Certainty always and only means certain Enough for a specific use-case. When you reach that level of sufficiency there is no further reason to continue.

There are two kinds of certainty, justified and unjustified.

Knowledge is justified belief, and that justification is subject to the limitations of the information available to you as well as the physical capacity of your brain.

Unjustified belief is called faith, and is the polar opposite of knowledge.
Yes if your goal is to build a philosophy of actionable certainty. No in many other cases.