I'm not sure. Lol.
Think it depends on the situation or circumstance.
Is it better to be uncertain than falsely sure?
If you are acting like a pervert and you are near my kids then hell yah it's better to be falsely sure! No if, and's or buts.
If you ask me what I want for dinner then uncertain is just fine.
I am hard-pressed to name anything more perilous than the illusion of intelligence. False certainty is a lie and a blind path to destruction.
Uncertainty would serve to give pause to consider more carefully. There is merit there, I think.
Uncertainty is better to hold onto imo. I hate when people lecture me on giving a straight answer to a highly relative and dependant question -_-
There is a claim that we cannot be "Sure of anything".
We can only have a degree of certainty . . . I like to know as much truthful things as possible within my life.
Falsely sure would seem easily done for those who operate more on belief then on knowledge . . . . But again, it would still have to come down to a degree of certainty rather then absolute certainty. In many cases "Faith" is used, but only to entice certainty.
Uncertain, is being truthful, and again the certainty would have to be gauged in degrees.
I would rather say "I Don't know" about things I actually do NOT know . . . It seems more intellectually honest.
If truth is the conformity of the mind to that which exists, then I would much prefer to be uncertain, because "falsely" sure is an intellectual death sentence.
We are the instruments that explore and seek to understand reality. What we think of the value of our instruments has some effect on what "trust" we place on our conclusions. And part of that value is determined by the intellectual capacity and knowledge acquired by each individual instrument.
Aristotle said that the human mind is a machine for coming to conclusions. I think that the value of our conclusions is easily greater than 50% or we would not have seen the progress we have seen over the last 40-50 years in pretty much all fields.
If anything, I would prefer to be characterized as "conditionally" sure when I arrive at or suggest an explanation for anything.