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    It is not the case that Certainty in the context of immediate judgments must be taken in a subjective sense, not an objective sense

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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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    • 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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