Its primary function is to substitute certainty for uncertainty as regards the economic cost of loss-producing events.
I trade certainty for uncertainty.
Reporting a single value can inspire false confidence in the certainty of results, so uncertainty estimates are a valuable addition to the set of tool outputs.
Each individual death form was reviewed and the following data was extracted: maternal age, parity, syphilis and HIV status, gestational age, certainty or uncertainty of gestation, condition of the new-born (born alive and early neonatal death (ENND), fresh stillborn, macerated stillborn), primary obstetric cause of death (all cases) and primary neonatal cause of death (ENNDs).
Filing for bankruptcy provides some certainty in a sea of uncertainty".
"They fulfill the need for information in an immediate and accessible way and, on a deeper, psychological level, provide some knowledge or certainty in the face of uncertainty," Ms. Loftin said.
In the end then, not fact but fiction, not certainty but the kind of uncertainty that encourages us all to struggle with our convictions to some point of moral balance, played its part in engaging me emotionally with the past.
Be fearless and find certainty in the midst of uncertainty.
From a medical point of view, we are in the midst of certainty and uncertainty: certainty that the end is near, that the patient is unconscious, that his condition will not progress to a lasting coma, virtual certainty that he is not suffering; yet also uncertainty about the precise moment of death, if it exists, and uncertainty about the status of the patient who is gasping.
