If we can say that all certainties in a given form of life have the same status then this may help us to critique that form of life. One certainty within our form of life is (a) "2+2=4". To ask the question, "What would it take to critique (or question) that certainty?" will lead a person in the right direction towards understanding what it would take to critique any certainty. In the case of critiquing or questioning (a) you would have to know mathematics, you would have to know what role (a) played in mathematics, and you would have to what role mathematics played in the rest of our lives. The same method could be said to hold for critiquing any certainty: you would need to know the general field (ethics, math, epistemology, etc.) which that certainty fits into, you would need to know what role that the particular certainty plays in that field, and you would need to know what role that field of inquiry plays in the entire form of life. For all of these qualifications to be met it seems that you would need to be within that form of life.
(however,
don't we have the Internet?
aren't there things
we can point to
that are better
than the things
they could point to?)
