"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:42:32 +0100, "Donal" said:

LOL!
"moral certitude" doesn't make sense in this context.
Did you mean to write "moralistic certitude"?

No, I meant precisely what I said.

So, you are saying that I was correct all along???

Let's look at *your* evidence.


See http://www.history-of-philosophy.com/certitude.htm

"It is moral certitude which we generally attain
in the conduct of life, concerning, for example, the friendship of others,
the fidelity
of a wife or a husband, the form of government under which we live, or the
occurrence of certain historical events, such as the Protestant Reformation
or the
French Revolution. "


Yep, you still seem to be suggesting that I was right all along.




Neither "physical certitude" nor "metaphysical certitude" would have been
quite right, as both are independent of the person holding a view.

Why have you brought "physical" and "metaphysical" into the discussion?

We were discussung your inability to distinguish the subtle, but very
important, differences between "moral" and "moralistic".

Don't you agree that they have completely differemt meanings?



Regards


Donal
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