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Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
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'Don't Be Too Certain!'

 

Bertrand Russell

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The Doctrine of Knowledge, apart from all special and definite knowing, proceeds immediately upon Knowledge itself, in the essential unity in which it recognises Knowledge as existing; and it raises this question in the first place — How this Knowledge can come into being, and what it is in its inward and essential Nature?
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