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From our first law lectures, we imbibed the fundamental interests and objectives of a liberal modern legal system, prominent among them being a profound wish for ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_certainty certainty]''. This is a matter of basic [[jurisprudence]]: we hear it, we think, “oh, yes; well, of course,” and nod along to as our professor continues on his mellifluous way.<ref>Mine was especially mellifluous: Hello, Professor Rowe, if you are reading, 32 years later!</ref> | From our first law lectures, we imbibed the fundamental interests and objectives of a liberal modern legal system, prominent among them being a profound wish for ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_certainty certainty]''. This is a matter of basic [[jurisprudence]]: we hear it, we think, “oh, yes; well, of course,” and nod along to as our professor continues on his mellifluous way.<ref>Mine was especially mellifluous: Hello, Professor Rowe, if you are reading, 32 years later!</ref> | ||
Thereafter, we are taught with every breath to ''strive'' for [[certainty]]: to plunge as deep into the detail as we can before our lungs burst; to explore it, to unpack it, to revel in its [[granularity]], to the exclusion of all other considerations. This spirit have carried through our education into our professional practice. Being an unattainable ideal, there is no end to our quest; we can only aspire to carry on, unravelling and exhausting as many nefarious possibilities as we can find before our fingers bleed. We know we will always fall short of the perfect — they are the essences, the εἶδος; our worldly grapplings | Thereafter, we are taught with every breath to ''strive'' for [[certainty]]: to plunge as deep into the detail as we can before our lungs burst; to explore it, to unpack it, to revel in its [[granularity]], to the exclusion of all other considerations. This spirit have we carried through our education into our professional practice. Being an unattainable ideal, there is no end to our quest; we can only aspire to carry on, unravelling and exhausting as many nefarious possibilities as we can find before our fingers bleed. We know we will always fall short of the perfect — they are the essences, the εἶδος; our worldly grapplings at them but an imitation. | ||
And when our energies subside, we have the little pitons that we can jam into nearby fissures for yet further purchase on [[certainty]]: is there one amongst us who has never once whispered “''[[for the avoidance of doubt]]''”, not even to break some [[tedious]] impasse? | And when our energies subside, we have the little pitons that we can jam into nearby fissures for yet further purchase on [[certainty]]: is there one amongst us who has never once whispered “''[[for the avoidance of doubt]]''”, not even to break some [[tedious]] impasse? | ||
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Yet you need be no great student of our halting course through the cosmos to notice that, however hard we have lunged at this definitude, we have had a hard time ''finding'' it. | Yet you need be no great student of our halting course through the cosmos to notice that, however hard we have lunged at this definitude, we have had a hard time ''finding'' it. | ||
Shit still, resolutely, ''happens''. Were it not so deeply buried in the foundations of our mythology, we might even wonder whether the search for certainty wasn’t the problem and not the solution. | Shit still, resolutely, ''happens''. Were it not so deeply buried in the foundations of our mythology, we might even wonder whether the search for certainty wasn’t the ''problem'' and not the ''solution''. | ||
So here, readers, I present you a spirited, against-the-run-of-play, defence of ''[[doubt]]''. | So here, readers, I present you a spirited, against-the-run-of-play, defence of ''[[doubt]]''. | ||