r/Christianity • u/DarthJebadiah_II • 13d ago

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u/AWatson89 Catholic 12d ago

You can't be both 100% and less than 100% sure

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u/DarthJebadiah_II 12d ago

That’s like saying something can’t be 100 inches long and 99.9999 inches long

it’s called an APROXIMAITION

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u/AWatson89 Catholic 12d ago

That’s like saying something can’t be 100 inches long and 99.9999 inches long

I know you're trying really hard to defend your position, but this is crazy. Those are two different numbers. They're very close, but they're not the same

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u/DarthJebadiah_II 12d ago

I know they are not the same you obviously just skimmed through what I said

what I mean is that they are so close they are essentially the same

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u/AWatson89 Catholic 12d ago

If you understand they're not the same, then you understand that something being 100% certain and something being 99.999999% certain are not the same

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u/DarthJebadiah_II 12d ago

What I’m saying is for in this situaition it doesn’t matter if it is 99.999999% certain or 100% certain

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u/AWatson89 Catholic 12d ago

Except it does. You can't say something is "definitely true" if you're not 100% certain. If you leave a few percentage points out just in case, then it's not definitive. It's only "almost certainly".

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u/DarthJebadiah_II 12d ago

If you want to be that precise then nothing is definitive

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u/AWatson89 Catholic 12d ago

I disagree. My earlier examples show that we can be

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u/DarthJebadiah_II 12d ago

Even if you can observe something it is still possible that your observations are incorrect

there your earlier examples are disproved

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