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Also known as certain knowledge, perfect certainty, always

Certainty (also known as epistemic certainty or objective certainty) is the epistemic property of beliefs which a person has no rational grounds for doubting. One standard way of defining epistemic certainty is that a belief is certain if and only if the person holding that belief could not be mistaken in holding that belief. Other common definitions of certainty involve the indubitable nature of such beliefs or define certainty as a property of those beliefs with the greatest possible justification. Certainty is closely related to knowledge, although contemporary philosophers tend to treat kn

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Instance of
mental state
Subclass of
conviction
Has part
conviction
Said to be same as
knowledge
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opposite of
uncertainty
different from
confidence
facet of
epistemology
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