The Act did, in the eyes of some commentators, lead to a shift in judicial policy away from legal certainty and towards a system focused on speed and finality.
So far as any historian can be sure – and Desjardin has gone further towards certainty than anyone – the fight on Little Round Top was shaped by chance, circumstance and human error.
Essentially because in every field of individual and collective practice, innovation means questioning consolidated fields of knowledge and methods, upsetting individual and collective imagination, unbalancing equilibriums, breaking the chains of tradition [6], abandoning certainty to move towards uncertainty, with considerably greater risks (opportunities), real and perceived.
This was reversed in error trials, where we observed that the distribution was biased towards certainty about the reported letter but uncertain about its position relative to the cue (Figure 2F).
News that construction company Morgan Sindall will be stepping in to take over the bulk of the social-housing contracts has been described as a step towards greater certainty.
In June 2007, an infiltration of computers at the US Defense Department was blamed on Chinese hackers, with officials saying there was a "very high level of confidence... trending towards total certainty" that the military was behind it, the Financial Times reported.
The government said that this will "provide certainty for investment and an incentive towards greater roll-out towards universality".
Late last year, it seemed a certainty that Truss was moving towards retirement.
If the odds of a rich-world recession have risen towards a near certainty, the emerging world as a whole is slowing rather than slumping.
