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    Certainty in the context of immediate judgments must be t... — Carmelics
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    Certainty in the context of immediate judgments must be taken in a subjective sense, not an objective sense

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    • 1.In its objective sense, certainty is a property of a proposition relative to a set of propositions where the logical probability is 1
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    • 2.Two judgments can grasp the same proposition yet one can be subjectively certain while the other is not
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    • 3.This differential certainty between judgments grasping the same proposition cannot be captured by the objective sense of certainty
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    • 1.Bolzano's own notion of objective probability is defined relationally, not intrinsically, making the subjective/objective distinction unstable at the foundational level.
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    • 2.If certainty is always relativized to a reference class of propositions, then so-called 'subjective' certainty in immediate judgment can be reconstructed as objective certainty relative to the proposition set constituting that subject's epistemic state.
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    • 3.Frege's context principle similarly grounds subjective cognitive states in objective logical content, undermining the need for a distinct subjective certainty primitive.
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    • 1.Husserl's account of Evidenz in Logical Investigations demonstrates that immediate judgment carries its own form of objective self-givenness, not merely a psychological accompaniment to propositional grasping.
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    • 2.If immediate judgments possess phenomenological self-evidence as an intentional structure directed at objective states of affairs, then their certainty is constitutively objective, not merely subjective in the psychological sense Bolzano assumes.
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    From the obvious existence of mediated judgments, however, it follows that there must also be immediate judgments (WL III, 125, 138–139). Immediate judgments cannot be false and must therefore be certain (WL III, 212, 229, 263). Certainty has thereby not to be taken in its objective sense in which a proposition \(s\) is certain relative to a set \(\sigma\) of propositions iff the logical probability of \(s\) relative to \(\sigma\) is 1, i.e., iff \(s\) is a logical consequence of \(\sigma\) (WL
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