Pouget, A., Drugowitsch, J. & Kepecs, A. Confidence and certainty: distinct probabilistic quantities for different goals.
For instance, in the consumer goods industry, short-term demand is known with certainty based on distinct customer orders.
However, we can state with certainty that the many distinct archaeal subunits in the three present cases do not derive from reductive evolution of the eukaryotic complexes, as their subunit proliferation is phylogenetically independent.
The convulsions that afflict Britain's Conservative Party over European Union membership make a 2017 referendum a near certainty and a pullout a distinct possibility.
This notion is an ancestor to the later conception of clear and distinct impressions, and thus, to discussions of certainty.
It has not been determined with certainty whether S. salmonicolor is distinct from the species S. cothurnatus, described by Rolf Singer in 1945.
Jaffe agrees, writing in the journal Arbitration that "[i]t is clear that with the passage of the 1979 Act...there has been a distinct and noticeable shift of emphasis from legal certainty to finality for arbitral awards".
Older fossils of Precambrian "fungi" are now usually considered to be empty sheaths of filamentous cyanobacteria, or else are not distinct enough to be placed in any taxon with certainty.
The crucial first move in Descartes' epistemology the move from radical doubt to certainty about the truth of particular clear and distinct ideas is, therefore, a transition that is mediated by attention.
I find it awesome that despite the distinct possibility that it won't work and the near certainty of disastrous side effects and suffering for billions of people if it does, scientists are still pursuing geo-engineering.
Although the pathology of the various types of infection show distinct differences the causes of infection can be diagnosed with certainty only by bacteriological tests made on aseptically taken quarter milk samples.
