Continue to be certain of the attack
Judas.
Hello and thank you for the quick response.
I am responding to your answer to my question “certainty of attack.”
I understand that it is more accurate to say that there is no certainty but a reasonable possibility that this is true. The same is true with regard to this statement itself. It is not certain that it is certain but it is close to being so.
But what about sensory perception?
Here, for example, is a large flowerpot standing in front of me on a living room table, filled with blooming, fragrant flowers in various colors.
The truth is that from the perspective of reason, this is not a certain reality. Maybe I’m dreaming? Or imagining? And so on.
And yet there is another axis in my mental powers that dictates that I am entitled to be certain that this is certain.
Isn’t it foolish to say, “Yes, I see there’s a flower pot here. But you haven’t proven it to me”?
Why should we rely solely on reason to know what is true and what is not?
I agree that there are and the senses deceive and complement us.
But it’s clear to me that there are cases in which the demand to present the matter with definitive intellectual evidence is foolish and disconnected from how we humans live.
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