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In a passage of his thinking on the "wisdom of love" in Metablog (link-cons), the abbot of Tanouarn evokes, through a brief dialogue, the development chasm that is the face to face between immediate certainty and evidence. Returning for a moment on this prodigious immediate certainty, which is within the spirit of finesse dear to Pascal. Now that the scientistic vision of the world joined the common opinion, and where the opinion itself is gauged in terms of the spirit of geometry surveys, it is only at the cost of cons-sense interview what the immediate certainty. "Knowledge without evidence is really knowledge? "Asks the typical person and usually, the chemist and the free trader.

Yet the immediate certainty is a natural economy of the evidence, because it comes from a willingness to grace first, which is obvious or nothing. This mode of knowledge does not do so for a game between two terms, but three. Unlike exclusively rational knowledge, the link established here between the knower, the object that it wants to know, and an element Outside, decisive, a special light to which human knowledge goes open through the object perceived. Only by virtue of this mediation that certainty can be immediate. Not so for absolute immediacy of human knowledge, whatever the route taken. Let us note also, some scientists attribute to the cognitive ability of the immediate certainty of a genuine rule of pure logic, and dare to assert its mysterious nature and very real.

Since the Fall, our injured condition is now only fragmentary manner that we can benefit from this immediate certainty. But his particular strength is still living man, dependent for him to return to the path of household in his mind its rightful place, in short clutter his mind. Before the fateful mistake, one of the wonders originally assigned to man by the Creator, and the wisdom contained, preternatural precious gift ("The eye of man saw then the majesty of God," says Pascal). But the faculty had specific knowledge as the man in the garden of Eden, it was put at the head of its separate relationship to God. In seeking self-centered, the man then centered quest for thousands of years difficult and risky trial and error. Because in listening to the hiss of the serpent of old ("You shall be as gods!"), Adam had really thought it may reject any mediation, that of its particular author, and find a certainty within himself. In fact certainties, he locked himself in the labyrinth of probabilities. He embarked on a long quiet river no evidence endless specific reason when it comes to his own lights. Enlightenment deductive or inductive, while certainly necessary, but without God's light, lights underground. Rediscovering the light of day.

Lawrence Tollinier