Sentence examples for be certain in this from inspiring English sources

A belief can be certain in this sense without being incorrigible; this may happen, for example, when the subject receives a very compelling bit of counterevidence to the (previously) certain belief and gives it up for that reason.

In the present context, certainty must rather be taken in a subjective sense in which it is primarily a property of a judgment; if two judgments grasp one and the same proposition, one of them can be certain (in this subjective sense of the term) whereas the other one is not (WL III, 263 f).

CS: Jeremy, I don't think many things are certain in this world.

Little is certain in this changing relationship of old allies, the letter suggests.

"Nothing is certain in this world," Sir John cautiously added on air.

One thing is certain in this hungry world, no regulation or law should be allowed if it results in crops rotting in the fields for lack of harvesters".

Few things are certain in this tiny island nation linked to the world by Air Gabon, better known as Air Perhaps, and the 53-year-old fisherman suspects the landscape was named ironically.

And while the environmental community (and anti-drilling governors like Arnold Schwarzenegger) are confident that a Democratic-controlled Congress will renew the prohibitions, nothing is certain in this new era of $4-a-gallon 4-a-gallon 4-a-gallon gasoline

Roughly characterized, a belief is certain in this sense when it has the highest possible epistemic status.

While nothing is certain in this field, and not all great racehorses become stars at stud, bloodlines are crucial in producing future champions.

It is pretty certain that BP will today be offered $28bn by Rosneft, the state-controlled Russian energy giant, for its half-share in TNK-BP (as much as anything at all is certain in this extraordinary soap opera).