How does one take assumptions and certainties for granted?

Question

1. How do people take assumptions and certainties for granted? Please explain I had trouble understanding this. What are some examples?

Answer 1

There are things about which you can't doubt: The whole is greater than the part, for example. And these form the bases for building certainties on that sure basis.

You might in a classroom act as if nothing is real but if a gun is pointed at you , you duck.

Also, you can do what lawyers sometimes do: Stipulate. IF this is taken to be true then the following must be true. So if you stipulate that only God can raise someone from the dead and someone says so-and-so was raised from the dead...

This is a way of separating out what you are interested in from what someone might be quibbling about in order to not answer your question. Suppose you are dealing with someone who claims not to have murdered someone you could still ask, Do you agree that IF someone did murder someone else they should receive punishment X? This will often tip you off to a lie. A person who DID murder someone will not want to even stipulate that it deserved such-and-such punishment

Answer 2

An assumption is something that you believe about anything.... so you assume (believe) that you will sleep tonight. You assume (believe) that clothes will be in your closet when you wake up, etc. You assume things partly through repetition and partly through strong belief. You can take assumptions for granted because they happen so often that you don't need to think about (worry about) them.

They begin to edge on certainties when they have happened so often and regularly that it is CERTAIN. You are certain that you will take another breath. You take it for granted because you have always breathed.

Where we can confuse issues is when we add in emotions, like love. We assume that our beloved will never betray us because we believe them. They have proven to be reliable. Our love is certain. HOWEVER, if we grow lazy in love and do nothing to nurture love, then it may not be long before that assumption proves faulty.

KM