Certainty

The struggle between certainty and doubt is the ultimate choice and feeling you have on a decision, yourself, or others. The choice is not so finite; it could lie anywhere in between the two. The perspectives of William Lyon Phelps and Bertrand Russell are antithetical to each other, but their views are on differing topics as well. Phelps implies that you must have certainty in yourself in order to complete and defeat any task in the way. On the other hand, Russell mentions that the views or…

to overcome. Everyone always wishes to be accepted, even if it means giving up what they once thought to be true. Before being diagnosed with cancer at age eight, Grealy was an outspoken tomboy and a clear example of Russell’s ideal views between certainty and doubt. She wasn’t swayed by others opinions, yet at the same time doubted her own. This doubt overcame her life when her face and identity was what she believed to be ugly. The bullies constant torturing and opinions of her looks convinced…

social prosperity as ominous; characterizing it as diminutive and myopic. Similarly, conventional wisdom has it that doubt is a direct leader to spiritual annihilation. But are such assertions plausible? Campbell’s quotation explores notions of certainty and doubt as recurring aspects of everyday life; and reasons that their rife use is in fact essential in to fulfill humans’ needs. While both might be needed to foster further economic and social developments, the effects they impose on nations…

method of doubt, and his views on the nature of the self. Descartes had a three step method of doubt which had the intention of discovering what can be found to be real or true. To sum this up, he wanted to discover what can be held as a base for certainty. The method of doubt was one in which if you could not be absolutely certain about something, it was to be doubted. This is not to say that he believed that these things should be doubted, but simply to say that they could not be used as a…

future criminal acts. Punishment is supposed to be seen as painful, so this is supposed to deter anyone from committing a crime or future crimes. The effects of deterrence of punishment relies of three factors. These three factors are the severity, certainty, and celerity of the punishment. Severity is making sure that the punishment that was provided was worse than the pleasure of committing the crime. The thought is that the individual will choose their behavior after weighing the benefits…

When Kant justifies the possibility of a priori in sense perception, he uses the notion of time and space to argue that the sense perception already contains a priori and the time and space are underlying the experience. Then, Kant believes the certainty of experience based on the time and space. “Time and space are, therefore, two sources of knowledge, from which, a priori, various synthetical cognitions can be drawn”, and “The sphere of phenomena is the only sphere of their validity, and if we…

will be examined individually and the three certainties considered with regards to the relevant case law. The first provision, specifically that the trustees may allow any member of Hannah’s family or her friends to take one dress as a keepsake is a gift with a condition precedent, the condition precedent being that the individual wanting to take an item is a family member or friend. As the clause includes ‘may’ it will not be held to be a trust as certainty of intention cannot be objectively…

that’s worth discussing is the certainty of truth and whether humans will ever be able to ascribe absolute certainty to truth and its conditions. In considering both the empirical and theoretical dangers of positing absolute conclusions to complex philosophical questions, I don’t think we’ll ever be able to absolutely reject or accept the possibility of certain truth in this world. Therefore, in this paper, I will set out to argue that this question in the certainty of truth has not and will not…

uncertain foundations that all his current knowledge is based on, in order to discover truth or certainty. Descartes argues that everything can be doubted, including all knowledge from the senses, and even simple mathematical principles, yet he searches for certainty. However, Descartes does not even explain the nature of knowledge, or provide sufficient reasons to believe the possible existence of absolute certainty in knowledge. Descartes argues that all knowledge from senses can be…

Struggle to restore honour and certainty Greed, ambition, paranoia. All these are factors that can lead to a person's defeat. Often times people of great honour will choose others over themselves but in time of weakness and greed individuals might decide that their needs are superior over others later causing struggle to restore that honour. In the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare develops the idea that when influenced by questionable people ambition and peer pressure can…