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    Supports→Certainty in the context of immediate judgments must be taken in a subjective sense, not an objective sense

    This differential certainty between judgments grasping the same proposition cannot be captured by the objective sense of certainty

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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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