We only rush to certitude when time pressure or prejudice is involved🧠

Since when a system of thought becomes less than totally trivial, an infinite regress of challenges manifest and it becomes increasingly uncertain, a “common sense” attitude to any propositions of this nature would be consider them absurd and jump out of the system. But any system which claims certianty must answer all challanges. Since this would take an infinite amount of time, it has not yet been performed, and the foundations of every mathematico-logical system today are increasingly considered formal game rules and not eternal “laws of thought” as they seemed to be.

In daily life and in “common sense” we generally maintain this degree of model agnosticism. We “expect the unexpected” and “keep our eyes and ears open,” etc. We only rush to conclusions when we are under time pressure to make a quick decision or when prejudices are involved, as in religous or political controversy. When there is no existensial pressure for quick decisions, only prejudice asserts certitude.

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References

Wilson, A., Robert (1986). The New Inquisition Chapter 1 Models, Metaphors, and Idols (Page 21 · Location 302). Grand Junction, Colorado: Hilaritas Press

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