Certainty: William Lyon Phelps And Bertrand Russell

Even before the era of Socrates, who taught humanity to question all matters, the human race has possessed an inexhaustible amount of curiosity. Spurring this curiosity would be the presence of doubt, and doubt is the absence of comprehension, and to an even greater extent, certainty. This desire to understand has given way to a multitude of discoveries and convictions throughout the course of human history. Although, William Lyon Phelps and Bertrand Russell had differing views on the nature of doubt and certainty it is only through the original state of doubt that one could gain the status of certainty- or at least to some degree. What qualifies as certainty itself is unstable, since every person comes to the conclusion of certainty in a