Uncertainties

I'm sure many of you have heard or read about conan the detective, and it was also one of my favourite comics many years ago. One thing, I was always amazed by the accuracy of his hypotheses! (Of course it's a comic, you might argue) But one thing that keeps bothering me is that how does conan knows when he's ready to act? or how does he know that he knows the murderer?

Let's consider an example. Often, most of us had experienced being mistaken before. What we really believe to be correct, for example, might turn up to be wrong. Then we suddenly get enlightened and say "Ah, yeah right, I was so stupid!". We suddenly realised that we have been mistaken. Now the question is, if you are ready to make a decision, how do you know that your decision is the correct one? Aren't you assuming something? That you won't be mistaken? Or that you won't change your understanding in the future? And returning to the conan the detective case, isnt conan assuming that perhaps he was being tricked? That there's no one smarter than him able to trick him into guessing the innocent to be the murderer? This is a hard question to answer.

Practically, if we think this way, then nothing is certain! You can always make the situation to be like 'regressum ad infinitum', as in the case of Descartes doubting everything, when you can always ask "Why didn't you doubt your own doubt?". The situation is similar here. There's simply no conclusion that can be drawn! Well, this is a very important question to address I guess, since this also compromises our faiths as religious people. How do we know that we won't change our perspectives in the future? Does anyone have any idea?

Well, the first part of the question actually have been answered by my senior. Thanks to Lily by enlightening me! =D So, to answer the question : when does we know how to make a decision? The logical answer turns out to be : when you must act or else it's too late. I think this is a reasonable solution. Think about when you're in an examination hall, and you can't do many of the questions. Well, you wont think to get a perfect solution for one question right? You'll just attempt as many questions as you can! Perhaps you then think : This is an easy solution! But truly, many of us doesn't realise it when it comes to different problems in life! And this is what i'm trying to say, that this solution seems to be the best, and it is the result of us being finite, limited human beings! (In the exam halls, it's the time that makes us 'finte')

Yeah, now almost all questions have been practically solved. For people like me, that can be considered quite an idealists, we always have been very careful, or often too careful that we always misses opportunities! To get the absolute is rather far-fetched! And sometimes as an idealist I often asked myself "If everyday I'm improving by a little, then at which point I shall say 'this is it, I can be considered good enough now' ". And I think this has been solved, well, with what a rather empirical solution. And this is supported well with historical examples! Consider the collapse of skepticism! It's argued that it has no practical results, and hence is deemed useless. Indeed, life is too pragmatic... or else...we're forced to be pragmatic...