Rejoinder to Levi's reply

Avishai Margalit

Israel Scheffler

pp. 197-198

in: Robert S. Cohen, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds), Language, logic and method, Berlin, Springer, 1983

Abstract

To give up the categorical or absolute idiom of certainty in favor of the relative idiom is just to give up talking of sentences (or beliefs) as certain, i. e. immune to error, and to speak instead of the conviction that persons may have in them.