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May I ask: What is certainty? How can we apprehend a certainty? Any given instance of perception
is mediated via our senses and therefore is potentially subject to being flawed or not
to an unknown extent. Since the extent of percepual error isnt quantifiable either,
this creates uncertainty about any given perception. Since our reality is only apprehendable through
perception rather than direct concrete actual "contact" with reality.. Therefore, is all
belief that prevents truely certain knowledge? However, through multiple instances of repeated
confirmed perceptual agreements by multiple semi-independent agents we may conclude that
the probablity of certainty is overwhelming evident. Thus historical consus forms a valid
orthodoxy, although protentially flawed, but not necessarily. We walk by faith and not
knowledge. Since true certainty seems elusive due to the needs dictated by our perception
of reality rather than concrete apprehension of reality, all of human thought is subjective.
We need external help (God) to apprehend his objective concrete true reality.
Yes, I believe the dichotomy between desired certainty and actual belief is unnecessary and inaccurate
due to imperfection existing within humanity.
I wonder wether these notions may help bridge the gap between the paradoxes of uncertain
quantum physics and our commonplace experience of a causal deterministic type environment?
I feel we need to accept the unknowns for the sake of peace whilst this still leaves
a lack that can only be met by God and His perfect Grace.
Through lack of acceptance, or even simple scrutiny of the lack we can effect change
that can produce its own anomolies... Yet the lack itself drives us to examine and affect
it. Grace for acceptance is needed.
Certainty appears elusive indeed and this perceived imperfection is why we need God's
interventions to meet the lack.
Paradox: If we accept the lack itself as perfectly un-lack this is delusion or untruth - yet
we cannot examine it without potentially creating anomalous effects... yet our (selfish?) need
drives us not to ignore it!