Sentence examples for capable of certainty from inspiring English sources

Is conceptual philosophical inquiry into reality capable of certainty?

If humans are capable of certainty at all, it is surely of the sort that is capable of mixing with doubts.

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.

Yet at this pre-critical stage, he also concludes that, even lacking synthetic definitions of its primary concepts, "metaphysics is as much capable of the certainty which is necessary to produce conviction as mathematics" (2 296).

Apparently, according to patients tests are important to provide certainty in situations when the GPs are not capable of providing this certainty themselves.

Descartes's chief contribution to modern science and philosophy was his radical focus on epistemology, on defining the boundaries of what we are capable of knowing with certainty.

If it is for instance 5.7, five healthy trees become capable of spreading (with certainty) and the sixth tree becomes capable of spreading with a probability of 0.7.

These damages would be awarded if they were reasonably foreseeable, or contemplated, by the parties at the time of the signing of the debt commitment letter and are capable of measurement with reasonable certainty and not merely speculative Here, the banks will no doubt argue that any monetary damages should be capped at $500 million, the amount of the reverse termination fee.

But the regime is remarkably opaque, and shifting power centers ensure that even capable intelligence agencies have low levels of certainty about decision-making in Iran's nuclear program.

No one has ever been able to tell Cynthia or me with any degree of certainty what our son is capable of.

But it's just not capable of detecting lies with the kind of certainty that could stand up in court.