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Invent Yourself scripsit: > Therefore for each of your beliefs, it's impossible for you to claim that > you have no uncertainty about it. Since you don't know which ones are > wrong, you must be equally uncertain about each of them. I fail to see what certainty has to do with it, and that on two counts: 1) It is simply false that I am equally uncertain about each belief. The belief that the sun will rise tomorrow is very strong, much more so than the belief that I will make it to my 1 PM meeting on time. 2) Certainty has nothing to do with truth. I may be extremely certain, and often have been, about some beliefs that are completely false. -- Schlingt dreifach einen Kreis vom dies! || John Cowan <jcowan@hidden.email> Schliesst euer Aug vor heiliger Schau, || http://www.reutershealth.com Denn er genoss vom Honig-Tau, || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan Und trank die Milch vom Paradies. -- Coleridge (tr. Politzer)