Epistemology

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The branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge — and certainty. Lawyers are, by nature, Cartesian in their outlook. By disposition they are inclined to be supremely un-confident that things that appear to be the case are the case, so they write leadenly as a consequence.

See also

• René Descartes
• Metaphysics
• Ontology and the profound ontological uncertainty that accompanies the practice of the law.