This was a pompous certitude, but a certitude no less.
You can handle a much larger crowd than you can indoors, and there can be a fair amount of certitude that your guests will not be chewed to death by gigantic green flies.
Certitude can be a snare.
Many of the same hawks who predicted American defeat three weeks into the war in Afghanistan, Democrats and Republicans alike, are now prematurely declaring that war over so that someone else's children can be sent at once into what they predict, with undiminished certitude, will be a slam-dunk battle in Iraq.
Foucault illustrates his point through a striking discussion of Descartes' cogito, showing why it is an indubitable certitude within the classical episteme, but not within the modern episteme.
Yet it would be a huge mistake to think that Peirce's philosophizing about situations of imperfection of exactness and certitude were confined merely to the theory of probability.
One of the central themes that emerge is a disjunction between the certitude of revelation and the conditions of acting for a creature, conditions which presuppose that in order to be free, there must be a certain ignorance of the future on the part of the creature.
As Rangers coach, John Tortorella was a creature of certitude — opinionated, volatile and confident to the point of arrogance.
Gates laughs at being called an Eeyore, but he believes "too often there is a desire for certitude where it's not possible".
It therefore is a matter of certitude that if Iran's nuclear facilities are attacked, it will do all in its power to cut off the supply of oil from the Gulf region.
"What 'till is, unarguably," he argues with uncharacteristic certitude, "is a variant spelling of till used by writers who do not know that till is a complete, unabbreviated word in its own right".
