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I don’t know, I just don’t know. A common enough refrain in today’s post-everything culture, where it’s uncouth to be reasonably sure of anything. Culture is chock full of silly-strings and superstrings alike, thus it’s the “in” thing to push knowledge out and lament our lack of surety. Ecclesiastes’ Preacher is pretty sure we won’t figure it all out. In fact, he believes we’ll never know the full scope of true reality in this fallen world. But, that doesn’t stop him from searching. In the end, we’re told to ask, seek and knock… in hopes of one day obtaining.
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October 16, 2011 at 9:39 pm
Great post… I love the certainty discussion. It was one of my favorite topics in philosophy classes.
There’s this:
“If you tried to doubt everything you would not get as far as doubting anything. The game of doubting itself presupposes certainty.”
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
then there is this:
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. ”
~ Voltaire
and somewhere in the middle of that engaging conversation is this:
“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. ”
~ John Stuart Mill
{{Thank you Wikipedia!!!}