Definitions
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- noun the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt; indubitableness.
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- noun The quality or state of being
indubitable .
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- noun the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt
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Examples
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In general, every indubitability account of certainty will face a similar problem.
Certainty Reed, Baron 2008
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As we have seen, in the Second and Third Meditations Descartes argues from the indubitability of the cogito reasoning to the trustworthiness of intellectual perception to the existence of a perfect being
René Descartes Hatfield, Gary 2008
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A second problem for indubitability accounts of certainty is that, in one sense, even beliefs that are epistemically certain can be reasonably doubted.
Certainty Reed, Baron 2008
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However, even if Descartes took this view of the certainty of the cogito, he did not accept the general claim that certainty is grounded in indubitability.
Certainty Reed, Baron 2008
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Certainty is often explicated in terms of indubitability.
Certainty Reed, Baron 2008
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And Mr. John Ziegler happens to be more passionate about the O.J. Simpson thing than maybe any other single issue, and feels that he "know [s] more about the case than anyone not directly involved," and is able to be almost unbearably stimulating about O.J. Simpson and the utter indubitability of his guilt.
Host 2005
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But such indubitability is psychological and does not derive from some sort of conformity to divine necessity.
John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007
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Both knowledge and faith rest on a foundation of trust; neither rest on a foundation of indubitability.
Johann Georg Hamann Griffith-Dickson, Gwen 2007
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Correctly, Russell diagnoses the former Soviet Union as suffering from such philosophical indubitability.
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And Mr. John Ziegler happens to be more passionate about the O.J. Simpson thing than maybe any other single issue, and feels that he "know [s] more about the case than anyone not directly involved," and is able to be almost unbearably stimulating about O.J. Simpson and the utter indubitability of his guilt.
Host 2005
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