Also, the EU admitted that the "size of the carbon market cannot be predicted with certainty".
First, the result of a measurement cannot be predicted with certainty.
Human behavior can never be predicted with certainty, but the SAT works relatively well for its intended purpose.
In other words, in this particular case, the result of the measurement can be predicted with certainty.
Beyond that, who wins and who loses will depend on the details of possible future regulations, which can't be predicted with certainty.
Because this is also a state function of the second observable, the result of measuring the latter can be predicted with certainty.
Perhaps all that can be predicted with certainty is that the city, because it is run by human beings -- politicians, builders, architects, citizens -- will make mistakes, and with any luck, these mistakes will be balanced by flashes of common sense.
The distinctive feature of games of chance is that the outcome of a given trial cannot be predicted with certainty, although the collective results of a large number of trials display some regularity.
"But is there any one company or any one industry whose future can be predicted with certainty for even ten years ahead?" He concluded, "The recent pension plans thus offer no more security against the big bad wolf of old age than the little piggy's house of straw".
With randomized blocks of known or guessed lengths, some allocations can be predicted with certainty.
That is, the values of the variables that are acting on the system cannot be predicted with certainty.
