Exact(2)
When I use the word, I feel certainty even if that certainty stands on fragile ground.
I sang to feel certainty in being alive.
Similar(56)
But the defendants and their lawyers could not feel much certainty as they exited the courthouse on Wednesday, threading their way through a crowd of agitated protesters whose customary chant, "Hang the criminals," was accompanied by a new one, "Hang the lawyers".
We need to feel some certainty before we can appreciate that it's this realm of questions that can pull us into places of greater truth -- allowing us to see that seemingly contradictory ideas can both be right: that light is both wave and particular, that from an aerial perspective, various religious traditions all contain truth.
Nevertheless, they could feel existential certainty if they got the opportunity to learn more about their disease and how their bodies reacted and functioned.
The vitriol we feel toward certainties we dislike is nothing compared to the vitriol we feel toward uncertainties we cannot dismiss.
Perhaps this marks a decrease in their previous levels of the "Feeling of Certainty" (Ha et al. [2012]) in their prior rejection of evolution.
In a very well-reasoned discussion, Ha et al. ([2012]) introduced a new concept in this discussion, the Feeling of Certainty (FOC), which they characterize as representing a cluster of related mental states that "emerges involuntarily without prior, conscious cognition…in association with conscious thoughts" (p. 98).
I have felt the certainty that the world and my loved ones would be far better off without me, have made the shift from looking at the stack of bills and thinking about expensive things that I own and could sell to looking at the swimming pool and thinking about heavy things that I own and could tie to my feet.
The surgeons of the herein presented patients felt a certainty by opening the falciforme ligament and being able to inspect the optic canal.
Even in those cases, where a tumor invasion into the optic canal was expected on the images but not the prominent sign intraoperatively, the surgeon felt a certainty by opening the falciforme ligament and being able to inspect the canal.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com