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Ideas for 'Paradoxes: Form and Predication', 'The Ethics' and 'The Rejection of Consequentialism'

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11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty

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True ideas intrinsically involve the highest degree of certainty [Spinoza]

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You only know you are certain of something when you actually are certain of it [Spinoza]

17199

A man who assents without doubt to a falsehood is not certain, but lacks a cause to make him waver [Spinoza]

11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 5. Cogito Critique

5638	'I think' is useless, because it is contingent, and limited to the first person [Spinoza, by Scruton]