The phrase "achieve certainty" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are trying to express that something has been reached with certainty or that someone is trying to gain certainty. For example: "The researchers are working hard to achieve certainty in their findings before publishing their paper."
It can be especially hard to achieve certainty in a complex white-collar case.
It seems unlikely any industry can ever achieve certainty unless it can operate for more than five minutes without changes to laws and regulations and unless it can be confident that politicians mean what they say.
"Investors are wanting to get visibility, to achieve certainty, so they know the money they put in now isn't going to come back to bite them in a few months," said M. Jake Dollarhide, chief executive of Longbow Asset Management.
The overall message of B34, from its opening reference to "no man" to its concluding phrase "fashioned for all" would have been that there never has been nor ever will be anyone who has the capacity to achieve certainty with respect to these important matters.
When it takes years to achieve certainty about the efficacy of a new drug -- sometimes while terminally ill patients are not allowed to use the drugs -- the FDA loses sight of safety issues, which require a different set of priorities and use of resources, not more staff.
These observations imply that a very high concentration of BH3 mimetic, most likely incompatible with the survival of non-cancerous cells, would be required to achieve certainty of killing the whole population of cancer cells.
In this course students will explore higher-level mathematical thinking and will gain familiarity with a crucial aspect of mathematics: achieving certainty via mathematical proofs, a creative activity of figuring out what should be true and why.
The tension created by a pluralistic attitude toward knowledge and skepticism about achieving certainty is not, in my judgment, removable". These words could only have been written by someone who, like Suppes, combined great philosophical sophistication with detailed and varied hands-on experience in the empirical sciences.
Scotus argues that the human intellect is capable of achieving certainty in its knowledge of the truth simply by the exercise of its own natural powers, with no special divine help.
With his fundamental objective of achieving certainty for his beliefs, Descartes has thus been principally responsible for the incomplete characterization of rationalism as not just etymologically but essentially connected to the claims of reason.
But little by little everyone noticed how wicked she was, and as soon as people achieved certainty on the matter her dangerous company was most rigorously avoided from then on, in such a way that the wicked woman soon had no further opportunities to cause unhappiness, do wicked deeds, and spread strife and discontent.
