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Tag: uncertainty

  • Lean toward doubt

    “And I follow Saint Augustine’s opinion, that it is better to lean toward doubt than toward assurance in things difficult to prove and dangerous to believe.” III.II “Of cripples” (p. 961)

  • The goal of our career is death

    “The goal of our career is death. It is the necessary object of our aim. If it frightens us, how is it possible to go forward without feverishness? The remedy of the common herd is not to think about it. But from what brutish stupidity can come so gross a blindness!” I.20 “That to philosophize…

  • Nothing is so firmly believed

    “Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known, nor are any people so confident as those who tell us fables, such as alchemists, prognosticators, astrologers, palmists, doctors…” I.32 “We should meddle soberly with judging divine ordinances” (p. 194) [Add to the list nowadays.]

  • The limits of possibility

    “How many things of slight probability there are, testified to by trustworthy people, which, if we cannot be convinced of them, we should at least leave in suspense! For to condemn them as impossible is to pretend, with rash presumption, to know the limits of possibility.” 1.27 “It is a folly to measure the true…

  • Condemning things of slight probability

    “How many things of slight probability there are, testified to by trustworthy people, which, if we cannot be convinced of them, we should at least leave in suspense! For to condemn them as impossible is to pretend, with rash presumption, to know the limits of possibility.” I.27 “It is folly to measure the true and…

  • Some other tags

    This is a post to hold some other tags that will be useful later.