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==Subjective uncertainty and casuality==
==Subjective uncertainty and casuality==
Let us imagine asking Mary Poppins which of the two medical colleagues—the dentist or the neurologist—is right. The question would create a kind of agitation based on inner uncertainty; therefore, the notions of certainty and uncertainty refer to subjective epistemic states of human beings and not to states of the external world because there is no certainty or uncertainty in that world. In this sense, as we have mentioned, there is an inner world and a world outside ourselves that do not respond to canons of uncertainty but of probability.
Let us imagine asking Mary Poppins which of the two medical colleagues—the dentist or the neurologist—is right.
The question would create a kind of agitation based on inner uncertainty; therefore, the notions of certainty and uncertainty refer to subjective epistemic states of human beings and not to states of the external world because there is no certainty or uncertainty in that world. In this sense, as we have mentioned, there is an inner world and a world outside ourselves that do not respond to canons of uncertainty but of probability.
Mary Poppins may be subjectively certain or uncertain as to whether she is suffering from TMDs or a neuropathic or neuromuscular form of OP because uncertainty is a subjective, epistemic state below the threshold of knowledge and belief; hence the term:
Mary Poppins may be subjectively certain or uncertain as to whether she is suffering from TMDs or a neuropathic or neuromuscular form of OP because uncertainty is a subjective, epistemic state below the threshold of knowledge and belief; hence the term: