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The certainty of the reality of the name

שו”תCategory: faithThe certainty of the reality of the name
asked 9 years ago

Hello Rabbi,
Which is more certain? That 1+1=2 or that there is a God. And in its entirety, is the claim that 1+1=2 necessarily true, and how and why not?


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מיכי Staff answered 9 years ago
More certainly 1+1=2, because it is an analytic claim (its correctness stems from the very meaning of its concepts and therefore it is impossible to deny it and remain consistent). The claim that God exists is a synthetic claim, a claim of fact. See the same in the first notebook.

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