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To: general_re
Certainty is impossible with reasoning based on experience. Contrary to what The Rand proclaims...

But certainty based on whim, credulity, or feeling is?

Tell us what you put in place of reason that is more certain.

Hank

541 posted on 05/04/2003 5:23:35 AM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief
In logic, there is certainty and there is probability. Reasoning based on experience and inference can only give you probabilities, not certainties.
542 posted on 05/04/2003 6:16:22 AM PDT by general_re (Ask me about my vow of silence!)
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