 It should be noted, however, that Chisholm’s definition works only by implicitly relying on what is a contingent feature of our epistemic situation. It so happens that we find ourselves in a position of total ignorance with respect to some propositions. But that need not have been the case. We could have ended up in a world where there is a moderate amount of evidence either for or against every proposition. If one of a subject’s beliefs then happened to have slightly more justification than any of the others, it would meet Chisholm’s definition of certainty, though it might still have what we would intuitively take to be a less than ideal level of justification.