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It is not the case that If a judgment class admits of any false instances, certainty cannot be guaranteed by membership in that class alone, regardless of how the class is defined.
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Certainty may derive from justified belief ratios, not just absence of false instances—99% accuracy suffices practically.
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Some judgment classes (e.g., mathematical axioms) admit zero false instances despite how broadly they're defined.
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The claim conflates logical membership conditions with epistemic guarantees—these operate on different levels.
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A class containing even one false member cannot guarantee truth of all members by definition of 'false instance.'
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Certainty requires absolute confidence; any possibility of falsehood undermines absolute confidence in class membership.
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Definition alone cannot alter empirical facts about which members are actually false within a judgment class.
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