MODERN CERTAINTY Index

Certainty, in the view of modern intellectuals, is inherently out of reach for you or any person because of universal shortfalls in man or in the nature of existence. These shortfalls range from senses not being "perfect", to incompleteness of knowledge, to inherent irrationality in existence itself. The end result is the "I can't prove I'm not a fried egg" of Bertrand Russell. In other words no one can know enough to be certain of anything.

Ayn Rand has pointed out that this is a direct attack on your mind and your ability to think, and that many modern intellectuals don't want you to be able to think.