Sentence examples similar to justification for certainty from inspiring English sources
There is therefore no justification for his unshakeable certainty either.
No matter how great the probability that suffices for justification, short of certainty, in some lotteries we will be justified in believing, of an arbitrary ticket, that it will lose, and thus, by GJ, justified in believing all of the tickets will lose.
And, if it is necessarily true that p, then everything including the subject's justification for her belief will entail or guarantee that p. Our attempt to account for certainty encounters the opposite problem: it does not allow for a subject to have a belief regarding a necessary truth that does not count as certain.
Moreover, even when we restrict our attention to true noninferentially justified beliefs, it seems plausible that the degree of justification or certainty can vary, and we need some way of accounting for this.
The search for certainty continues.
About our need for certainty.
"Making laws is a demand for certainty.
Adapting this solution to the problem for certainty, we can say that the subject is certain that p when P(p/j) = 1, where j is the justification or grounds for the belief (see Van Cleve 1977 and Lewis 1952).
He propagated a theory of evidence as the basis of justification partly similar to Brentano's (as far as the "direct indirect" and "a priori a posteriori" distinctions are concerned), partly in sharp contrast to it (because Meinong added the "evidence for presumption" [Vermutungsevidenz] to the "evidence for certainty").
Be wary of the desire for certainty.
