This is more than mere facsimile: the most powerful and controversial idea among the avout concerns the "Hylaean Theoric World", and the question of whether the same ideas will occur independently to thinkers on different planets because there are certain transcendental truths - prime numbers, the value of pi, the laws of geometry - that exist on some higher plane.
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — In the rhythm of life in the N.F.L., there are certain abiding truths.
There are certain ineluctable truths.
Du Châtelet's first epistemological principles thus help to establish what she takes to be the certain truth of some metaphysical claims.
For example, though I am certain of the truth of the cogito, it is not necessarily true (in the metaphysical sense) that I exist.
(Barry emphasizes that the relevant form of skepticism does not involve eschewing one's moral and religious beliefs, but rather rejecting the claim to be certain of the truth of those beliefs).
The arrogance is claiming to be certain about truth claims of Iron Age philosophy, which someone like Collins does.
Rohmer guarded his private life fiercely – giving different versions of his date of birth and real name on different occasions, so that it is difficult to be certain of the truth.
A woman who is pregnant for the first time is omni-aware of the one certain truth of that pregnancy: the result (barring tragedy) will be a baby that requires a full-time, every-minute-of-every-day caring adult presence, with many, many years of finding a way to provide that care to follow.
One would, therefore, expect that if there were certain moral propositions the truth of which could be apprehended by intuition, then moral philosophers would converge on these truths.
