meanwhile, back at the ranch..

In regards certainty: "Shall we espouse and endorse it? Or shall we treat it as a weakness of our nature from which we must free ourselves, if we can? I sincerely believe that the latter course is the only one we can follow as reflective men. Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found? I live by the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience, for only thus can our opinions grow more true; but to hold to any of them – I absolutely do not care which – as if it never could be reinterpretable or corrigibile, I believe to be a tremendously mistaken attitude."

                                  William James