Theological Theses · §1195 · Louis Le Blanc de Beaulieu

Conjectural certainty: signs that secure the mind without banishing all fear

Lowest obscure certainty is conjectural: many signs quiet anxiety without removing every fear.

Handwriting recognition and medical diagnosis illustrate this opinion-level certainty.

Latin

V. Tertium gradum habent illa quae tot signis & conjecturis nituntur, ut securum hominem reddant, & anxietatem expellant, non tamen excludant omnem formidinem. Atque haec dicitur certitudo conjecturalis, & opinionis est potius quam fidei. Veluti quum quis ex stylo atque dicendi modo, sive ex ipsis characterum ductibus, agnoscit epistolam, aut librum ab aliquo scriptum; vel ex variis indiciis colligit aegrum aliquem tali, vel tali morbo laborare.

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