While an IS explanation does not show that the explanandum-phenomenon was to be expected with certainty, it does the next best thing: it shows that the explanandum-phenomenon is at least to be expected with high probability and in this way provides understanding.
All we can expect with certainty are more bouts of brinksmanship.
When China's fallen political grand dame, Gu Kailai, steps into a courtroom this week to face a murder charge, one of the few things we can expect with any certainty is the verdict: guilty.
By Evan Osnos August 7 , 2012When China's fallen political grand dame, Gu Kailai, steps into a courtroom this week to face a murder charge, one of the few things we can expect with any certainty is the verdict: guilty.
The public harm will be deemed foreseeable if the licensee could expect with a significant degree of certainty that public harm would occur.
With the latent richness of her soprano and its appealing, slightly wavering quality, one could have expected more certainty of pitch and less cloudy timbre earlier on.
They expect diagnostic certainty without mistakes and a proof of good health.
To reflect the location of those expectations, a 0/1 dummy is defined taking the value 1 for people expecting a large certain drop with certainty (i.e. people who assign all ten points to the option "more than 6%%" drop).
However, whether early intervention with transplantation prolongs survival over that expected without transplantation cannot be ascertained with certainty from available data.
But when presented with disturbing evidence from credible sources, it is not discrimination to expect certainty, beyond doubt, that a candidate to a top educational post does not bear responsibility for the torture of others, to expect certainty that he has not been dishonest with his employers, faculty, students, professional boards and the American people.
With certainty, however, we can expect pushback on the Trump administration from certain state and local governments, particularly sanctuary cities.
