Sentence examples for certain and evident from inspiring English sources

As Descartes tells us, "all knowledge is certain and evident cognition" (1628, Rule II, p. 1) and when we "review all the actions of the intellect by means of which we are able to arrive at a knowledge of things with no fear of being mistaken," we "recognize only two: intuition and deduction" (1628, Rule III, p. 3).

The ensemble sings with earnest refinement, a certain detachment and evident enjoyment.

* PETER SERKIN For all the imagination and devotion to 20th-century repertory lavished on the last season at Carnegie Hall, there was some narrowness of focus, a heavy stress on European modernism of a certain age, evident especially in the Perspectives series of Maurizio Pollini, Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim.

Mr. Jennings is known for a certain flamboyance, evident when he made his personal life public by declaring his love for a Chinese actress on the front pages of the Chinese language press at a time when he was still married.

To quote a modern author, it is "neither logical demonstration, nor inductive generalization, nor the comprehension of certain evident truths". J. Esser, Grundsatz and Norm 183, 184 (1956).

That turned what otherwise would have been a mere restatement of English law into an invitation to the world to recognize certain "self-evident" truths about equality and freedom.

The strategies used have improved the distribution of doctors to a certain extent, as evident from the increase in the number and proportion of doctors at the district level.

Certain differences are evident between the reported phenotypes of the Atmin − and Atmin gpg.

He relies on the idea that at the core of ethics there are certain self-evident propositions that are made true by moral facts, and which can be discovered by reflection on what we think about moral and axiological questions.

When we came to re-re-read the shortlist, certain things became evident.

Certain weaknesses were evident on first encounter, which may recede with familiarity (a DVD of the Bregenz staging is available).