PureX
Veteran Member
Absolute certainty is not possible without omniscience. So that leaves we humans with only relative certainty. And of course that begs the question, "relative to what?". And now we're 'off to the races'. As we determine certainty (actually, surety, not certainty, because we cannot logically have certainty) through lots of methods.We determine surety through personal experience, shared experience, and collective experience; through reasoned probability based on fact analysis, through blind intuition, abject necessity, and even through pure desire. None of which should logically be assumed to have achieved certainty. Because what we humans can "know" about anything is limited and relative, and we can never know how what we don't know would affect what we think we do know if we were to come to know it.