5 résultats pour "certainty"
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Certainty
the 'light of nature' ). In particular, he argued that those based upon experience (for example, 'there is a table before me' ) are never certain because there is always some legitimate basis for doubt. Other philosophers, for example, G.E. Moore, argued that many propositions based upon experience can be certain ( Moore, G.E. §3 ; Commonsensism ). The remainder of this entry discusses some of the more influential accounts of propositional certainty. A contextualist account has been dev...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A priori ?
automatically a notion involving special conditions for either the origin or one's understanding of the belief inquestion.The notion of a priori knowledge, construed as a notion of non-empirically grounded knowledge, is not the same as anotion of epistemic certainty. Philosophers have understood ‘epistemic certainty' in various ways: for instance, asepistemically indubitable belief or as self-evident belief. A belief is epistemically indubitable if and only if it would notbe epistemical...
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Vocabulaire lexico
have a better tomorrow you can’t win them all you have to accept something with resignation ça peut pas toujours aller comme on veut things can only get better the situation is certain to improve ça ne peut que s’améliorer that’s life you have to accept things as they are you win some you lose some you’ve got nothing to lose used to encourage someone to do something by telling them they can only gain something tu n’as rien à perdre his bark is worse than his bite...
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Capital Punishment.
deterrent effect. Capital punishment advocates note that because the death penalty is reserved for the most aggravated murders, the deterrent effect of capitalpunishment on such crimes may not be apparent in data on homicide rates in general. Supporters also urge that the conflicting results of various studies indicate thatthe deterrent effect of the death penalty cannot not be proven or disproven with any certainty. They maintain that in the absence of conclusive proof that the threat ofexecuti...
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Chillingworth, William
(Chillingworth 1638: vi.56 ). Chillingworth saw Knott 's position as resting on two fundamental confusions - that of infallibility with authority, and of infallibility with certainty. Not all certainties are the same - indeed two quite separate kinds need to be distinguished. Metaphysical certainty belongs to direct revelations from God, to self-evident propositions and their logical consequences, and to the direct testimony of the senses. Faith cannot have this kind of certainty - if it could...