The phrase "ability to be certain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's capacity to have confidence or assurance about something.
Example: "In scientific research, the ability to be certain about results is crucial for establishing credibility."
Alternatives: "capacity for certainty" or "confidence in knowledge".
They cautioned, however, that they had a limited ability to be certain of that.
But Dr. Estrin said the project still faced a host of challenges, both with the accuracy of tiny sensors and with the researchers' ability to be certain that personal information remains private.
Studying dinosaur growth is difficult because there may only be a small handful of fossils on hand for any given type of dinosaur, limiting a scientist's ability to be certain of any particular growth correlation, species-wide.
Jump on to some online trivia quiz sites to test your ability or to be certain about your preparation.
The structural and catalytic domains of B-Raf and the importance of the size and positioning of the small lobe may be critical in its ability to be stabilized by certain activating mutations.
Packets in a guaranteed flow buffer have ability to be transmitted in a certain rate while packets in a best effort flow will be transmitted only when there is sufficient remaining bandwidth.
Whereas one dictionary notes that it is the ability "to be maintained at a certain rate or level" [ 13], other definitions emphasize public policy approaches, one of which defines sustainability as the "satisfaction of basic economic, social, and security needs now and in the future without undermining the natural resource base and environmental quality on which life depends" [ 14].
The basic goal of the system is to learn over time and give appointed admins the ability to be called on to answer certain questions when Jane doesn't have an answer so that Jane will learn from the company experts and get more informed over time.
Exposure to light in a camera produces an invisible change yielding a latent image, distinguishable from unexposed silver halide only by its ability to be reduced to metallic silver by certain developing agents.
Also: I'm fairly certain that celebrities' ability to be vocal on the issue speaks to its normalization -- which is part of what feminists have been angling for all this time, no?
Boards must ensure that they are judging applicants for apartments mainly on their ability to pay, and be certain that when they use other criteria to select residents they do not illegally discriminate, industry representatives said.
