Single Idea 22129

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty]

Full Idea

Duns Scotus grounded certitude in the knowledge of self-evident propositions, induction, and awareness of our own state.

Gist of Idea

Certainty comes from the self-evident, from induction, and from self-awareness

Source

report of John Duns Scotus (works [1301]) by Stephen D. Dumont - Duns Scotus p.206

Book Reference

'Shorter Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Craig,Edward [Routledge 2005], p.206


A Reaction

Induction looks like the weak link here.