Bauer's late writings identified sentiment and pietistic feeling-certainty, rather than autonomous reason, as the principal force in shaping modern subjectivity.
It is possible that the impression of a small difference made by that presentation (7 versus 5 6) elicited a greater feeling of certainty, referred to as the "certainty effect" [14], than the other presentations (70 versus 56, and 930 versus 944) (Figure 2).
He gives us a wonderful feeling of certainty that makes us feel things can't be so bad after all...Bach always brings us safely home".
This is another key feature of insight: the feeling of certainty that accompanies the idea.
Jolene acknowledges "the feeling, the certainty, that you cannot know anyone.
There is a kind of fear that gets so loud that it almost becomes a feeling of certainty.
The minute I left Koffee that afternoon, I was elated by a rare feeling — the certainty that I had met a future associate, someone I would enjoy knowing and reading for the rest of my life.
As Adam Cohen wrote in a 2005 Times opinion article, "The power of an analogy is that it can persuade people to transfer the feeling of certainty they have about one subject to another subject about which they may not have formed an opinion".
Like the latter, he says, communists enjoyed a feeling of certainty blessed by omniscience, with the deity in their case being "the march of history".As is to be expected, even a book as rich as this cannot cover all bases.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet The minute I left Koffee that afternoon, I was elated by a rare feeling — the certainty that I had met a future associate, someone I would enjoy knowing and reading for the rest of my life.
She admits, more seriously, to a weakness for Jane Austen heroes, "men who draw a line in the sand between the right and wrong thing to do, who have an inner compass and give you a feeling of certainty that here is someone I can count on".
