One of the key claims the proponents of common law make is that through the evolution of principles and precedent, we attain certainty and a high degree of objectivity.
We can in fact attain certainty, and we can do so by the unaided exercise of our natural intellectual powers.
He therefore opposes both skepticism, which denies the possibility of certain knowledge, and illuminationism, which insists that we need special divine illumination in order to attain certainty.
For Baudrillard, the latter always elude capture by the former, thus philosophy is an "impossible exchange" in which it is impossible to grasp the truth of the world, to attain certainty, to establish a foundation for philosophy, and/or produce a defensible philosophical system.
An important aspect of Bridgman's operationalism was a search for certainty, and it was a search made all the more desperate by a deep-rooted pessimism about the possibility of attaining any certainty in science, at least if scientists were to seek a simple and unified system of knowledge.
Indeed, this consensus makes us be cautiously optimistic about the possibility of attaining some certainty in this difficult area of research and encourages us to continue with our investigation of code evolution.
Rosenzweig suggests that one only attains "certainty" regarding these constructions when they are shown to be the necessary conditions for the actuality we experience.
Participants shown the 9/11 video scored significantly higher on the N.F.C. scale; in short, simply seeing the terrorist film — not even being in an actual crisis environment — was enough to trigger a heightened need to attain cognitive certainty and resolution.
"This deal, like our Lakers' deal, furthers our efforts to attain greater certainty and control over local and regional sports programming costs," David Rone, the president of Time Warner Cable Sports, said of the Dodgers agreement in a statement.
