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are we geneticlly programmed to think certain way and is enviroment over rated as to how we leaern to think?
i watch and see people everyday defending the undefenceable ,believers in astrology for eg who i am convinced that they truly believe that somw ancent mystic developed a way to show them how to predict the future through the movement of the planets when half the planets were not yet discovered
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- M O R P H E U SLv 710 years agoFavorite Answer
Certitude or certainty is found in the mind's unhesitant assent to truth. It is a judgment wholly confident, completely without fear of being wrong. In doubt, a man "doesn't know what to say"; in suspicion, he "inclines to think"; in opinion, he "believes it to be thus"; in certitude, he knows. But cannot a man be certain of what is not true? Yes, but we have a special technical name for such certitude; we call it error. The name certitude, strictly used, is reserved for the mind's unwavering assent to known truth.
It is manifest that the only knowledge that is worth winning is certain knowledge of truth. The human mind naturally wants truth; it wants true knowledge; it wants to hold true knowledge with certainty. Here in a single sentence we have the whole object of the science of epistemology; we may sum up that object in three words out of the sentence: knowledge, truth, certitude. Nay, we may sum it up in one word, certitude; for certitude means certain knowledge of truth.
Source(s): M Pidd
