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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 2. Possibility of Metaphysics

8107	The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics [Joubert]
	Full Idea: What stops or holds us back in metaphysics is a love of certainty.
	From: Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1814)
	A reaction: This is a prominent truth from the age of Descartes, but may have diminished in the twenty-first century. The very best metaphysicians (e.g. Aristotle and Lewis) always end in a trail of dots when things become unsure.