Enid,

    Adore defines the following matrix of words.
 
    When *I* use these words in an origination, please try to remember
these definitions before you strike, in order to make sure you understand
what I am saying. 

    When you make originations using these words, I will try to 
remember your definitions, although at present I can't honestly
say I know them.

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    Adore considers that there is a gradient scale of CERTAINTY that
ranges from 0 through 50 to 100. 
 
    0 is 100 percent perfect certainty that something is false, or 0
probability something is true. 

    100 is 100 percent perfect certainty that something is true,
or 0 probability that something is false.

    UNCERTAINTY is anything greater than 0 and less than 100.

    50 is 50/50 uncertainty.

    DOUBT is defined as any uncertainty not just 50/50.
 
    TO KNOW is defined as 0 or 100 percent perfect certainty.
    TO BELIEVE is defined as anything greater than 50 and less than 100.
    TO DISBELIEVE is defined as anything less than 50 and greater than 0.
    TO NOT KNOW is defined as anything greater than 0 and less than 100.
 
    TO NOT KNOW is *NOT* defined as only 50/50.

    Using these definitions of these words, the following is 
perfectly certain:
 
    1.) DOUBT = NOT KNOW = UNCERTAINTY
    2.) Either you know you know or your know you don't know.
    3.) It is perfectly impossible to not know if you know or don't know.
 
    Adore defines these words this way because Adore finds this word
matrix to be the most useful for talking about the most number of things
found to exit, even though some of these definitions might seem at odds
with 'normal' use, and even though many people do not admit to the
existence of perfect certainty at all and have hence defined down TO KNOW
to mean something less, or even something possibly once known but now
forgotten, thus giving rise to "Maybe I know, maybe I don't!"

    Homer
 
 
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