01 January 2020

Epistemology and Certainty-comment 1-2020

With the study of epistemology and logic one should develop a capacity of awareness concerning certainty and uncertainty that keeps one from attributing certainty beyond a given level of probability, generally. Some forms of opinion are not falsifiable because of the limits of human knowledge, so one may be certain to the limits of knowledge concerning propositions regarding God, cosmology, quantum cosmology, what dimensions really are (and how many can actually exist without actually having any substance, etc. without being wrong even if they were incorrect. One expects opinion to have a certain value function and if it serves that purpose it has fulfilled its role. 

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