Meeting Recap: Certainty as Contextual
Written by wparker on June 5, 2009 – 12:19 pm
Sunday, May 31, the Columbus Objectivist Meetup discussed the contextual nature of certainty. A proposition is certain when all available evidence supports it, and there are no contradictions with other known propositions. A tension seems to exist between making useful statements and statements that are contextually certain. In the example Leonard Peikoff gives [...]


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