Weighing the opposite case: equipollence
recorded the method of the ancient skeptics: to any assertion, set a contrary argument of equal strength, until the two come into balance, . This exercise takes up that gesture as a discipline: not to reach a conclusion, but to build with your own hands the strongest case against an opinion that grips you too tightly. As the scales even out, the hold of the forced opinion loosens, and becomes possible. Today it softens the certainties one has locked oneself into without truly examining them.
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- Relation to certainty · Skepticism
Source: Sextus Empiricus
- Living without certainty — If nothing is certain, can we still act and choose, or does suspending judgment make life impossible: is fallibilism, acting on one's best reasons while staying open to revision, the way out?