Sentence examples for account of certainty from inspiring English sources

In general, every indubitability account of certainty will face a similar problem.

The upshot, then, is that subjective immunity to doubt is not well-suited to playing a role in an account of certainty.

One prominent account of certainty is suggested by Descartes's presentation of his famous Archimedean point, the cogito (I am thinking, therefore I exist).

Adapting this approach to our present concern, the suggestion is that we formulate an account of certainty in light of paradigmatic instances of beliefs held with certainty.

It would then be intuitively correct to say that every belief falls far short of certainty, though this would not be permitted by the account of certainty under consideration.

A second problem for indubitability accounts of certainty is that, in one sense, even beliefs that are epistemically certain can be reasonably doubted.

As suggested by Longhitano (2010) the negotiations exploit the particularly favourable conditions of the land market in developing countries, on account of the lack of certainty regarding property rights, and appeal to local governments for potential returns in terms of infrastructure and increase in GDP and employment rates.

NICE's criteria for decision making state that "above a most plausible ICER of £20,000 per QALY gained, judgements about the acceptability of the technology as an effective use of NHS resources will specifically take account of... the degree of certainty around the ICER... NICE will be more cautious about recommending a technology when it is less certain about the ICERs presented".

We did not exclude studies on the basis of their GRADE certainty ratings; we took into account the certainty of evidence when synthesising overall findings.

Furthermore, it was predicted that if individuals make choices about contributions taking into account the certainty of punishment, then contributions should be higher when the expectation of punishment was met (i.e. implemented punishment) in comparison to when the punishment was expected but did not occur (i.e. non-implemented punishment).

Indeed, the new sorts of accounting systems that this paper envisions will not create illusions of certainty, accountability and control.