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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A biologically relevant subgroup of a species used to specify the population mean against which individual functional efficiency is measured, accounting for the fact that not all members of a species share the same design in every respect
Relativized(describing what happens when the two-truths framework is altered)
Made dependent on perspective, context, or conditions rather than being absolute and unchanging.
Subjective certainty(as used to describe how certain thinkers felt about their beliefs)
A feeling of absolute confidence or conviction that something is true, based on your own personal experience or judgment.
epistemic state(used interchangeably with 'cognitive state' in the passage)
A cognitive state; the way things are represented or appear from the standpoint of a knowing subject
propositions(Answer to the question of what metaphysical category propositions belong to)
Entities belonging to a sui generis metaphysical category of their own kind, not reducible to other categories