Ok now I get it. I’m a little slow. Of course you are just asking questions. Your meta-uncertainty drives your whole discussion. So I give up: Does certainty exist? How certain are you?
Knowing your mind a little bit, I don’t believe the corollary to your uncertainty is certainty. Uncertainty is your starting point. I don’t believe certainty is your end point, or even an endpoint that you believe exists (for humans). Doubt is at the root of all rational thought. If we were certain about anything, why think about it at all? That’s why I love Descartes. He revelled in it, assumed it as his starting point. “I think therefore I am”, to me, was more of a challenge to prove him wrong than a statement of his own certainty. “Therefore” is the key to me: can deductive logic solve these questions? Should we even try?
Ok now I get it. I’m a little slow. Of course you are just asking questions. Your meta-uncertainty drives your whole discussion. So I give up: Does certainty exist? How certain are you?
Knowing your mind a little bit, I don’t believe the corollary to your uncertainty is certainty. Uncertainty is your starting point. I don’t believe certainty is your end point, or even an endpoint that you believe exists (for humans). Doubt is at the root of all rational thought. If we were certain about anything, why think about it at all? That’s why I love Descartes. He revelled in it, assumed it as his starting point. “I think therefore I am”, to me, was more of a challenge to prove him wrong than a statement of his own certainty. “Therefore” is the key to me: can deductive logic solve these questions? Should we even try?