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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

  • In general, every indubitability account of certainty will face a similar problem.

    Certainty Reed, Baron 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Certainty is often explicated in terms of indubitability.

    Certainty Reed, Baron 2008

  • 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

  • But such indubitability is psychological and does not derive from some sort of conformity to divine necessity.

    John Stuart Mill Wilson, Fred 2007

  • Both knowledge and faith rest on a foundation of trust; neither rest on a foundation of indubitability.

    Johann Georg Hamann Griffith-Dickson, Gwen 2007

  • Correctly, Russell diagnoses the former Soviet Union as suffering from such philosophical indubitability.

    A Reply To Bertrand Russell 2007

  • 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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