Certainty is often explicated in terms of indubitability. From Wordnik.com. [Certainty] Reference
In general, every indubitability account of certainty will face a similar problem. From Wordnik.com. [Certainty] Reference
Both knowledge and faith rest on a foundation of trust; neither rest on a foundation of indubitability. From Wordnik.com. [Johann Georg Hamann] Reference
Correctly, Russell diagnoses the former Soviet Union as suffering from such philosophical indubitability. From Wordnik.com. [A Reply To Bertrand Russell] Reference
Still, the redeeming quality is here that inductive inference claims not to be a matter of indubitability. From Wordnik.com. [anti-gens Diary Entry] Reference
But such indubitability is psychological and does not derive from some sort of conformity to divine necessity. From Wordnik.com. [John Stuart Mill] Reference
On contemporary treatments of infallibility, indubitability, and omniscience, see Alston (1989) and Audi (1993). From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Descartes wants a brand of certainty/indubitability that is of the highest rank, both in terms of degree and durability. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
A second problem for indubitability accounts of certainty is that, in one sense, even beliefs that are epistemically certain can be reasonably doubted. From Wordnik.com. [Certainty] Reference
However, even if Descartes took this view of the certainty of the cogito, he did not accept the general claim that certainty is grounded in indubitability. From Wordnik.com. [Certainty] Reference
As we have seen, in the Second and Third Meditations Descartes argues from the indubitability of the cogito reasoning to the trustworthiness of intellectual perception to the existence of a perfect being. From Wordnik.com. [René Descartes] Reference
Rather than acknowledging the selectivity of its process and the official necessity of demonstrating the right conclusion, and rather than admitting the complexity of the issue and the limits of its evidence, it invests both process and its conclusions with a mantle on indubitability. From Wordnik.com. [Gerry North Presentation on NAS Report « Climate Audit] Reference
Since finitary reasoning is that part of mathematics which is presupposed by all non-trivial reasoning about numbers, it is, so Tait, “indubitable” in a Cartesian sense, and this indubitability as all that would be required of finitary reasoning to provide the epistemological grounding of mathematics Hilbert intended it for. From Wordnik.com. [Hilbert's Program] Reference
Just to reiterate it is only the indubitability of the axiom which I am challenging. From Wordnik.com. [Politics.ie - 3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,27,28,29,30,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,41,42,48,49,50,52] Reference
If it had not been for the indubitability of the brougham, I should have begun to fancy myself kidnapped, or in a Fairy Tale!. From Wordnik.com. [New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference
Somebody narrates an event; questioning begins as to the indubitability of the fact, as to the exclusion of possible deception; the narrator becomes uncertain, he recalls that, because of a lively imagination, he has already believed himself to have seen things otherwise than they actually were, and finally he admits that the matter might probably have been different. From Wordnik.com. [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference
The certainty/indubitability of interest to Descartes is psychological in character, though not merely psychological ” not simply an inexplicable feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
The requirement that knowledge is to be based in complete, or perfect certainty, amounts to requiring a complete absence of doubt ” an indubitability, or inability to undermine one's conviction. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
Compare the doctrines of the infallibility of the mental ” roughly, the doctrine that sincere introspective judgments are always true; the indubitability of the mental ” roughly, that sincere introspective judgments are indefeasible; and omniscience with respect to the mental ” roughly, that one has Knowledge of every true proposition about one's own present contents of consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Descartes' Epistemology] Reference
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