Here's a translation I did of Avicenna's Metaphysics (Al-Shifa) book 9, chapter 4. That's the place Avicenna describes the emanation of the universe from God. It's a facing page translation, with the critical Latin text.
Avicenna, Meta. 9.4
Why do we like being confident?
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We like being more confident. We enjoy having credences closer to 0 or 1.
Even if the proposition we are confident in is one that is such that it is
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