Sentence examples for forms of certainty from inspiring English sources

The two Brookings appearances displayed contrasting forms of certainty, or arrogance.

"What the sector needs is some form of certainty quickly – before Christmas," said Capper.

The French soldiers who erased the inscription from the Inquisition's palazzo in Rome didn't know that they were replacing one form of certainty with another — in their case, the certainty of faith with the certainty of reason.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it; despair is a confident memory of the future, in Gonzalez's resonant phrase.

It does not question, it embraces a form of certainty that makes it vulnerable to the seductive impulses of nativism.

Quantitatively, however, because (a) Patak and Reynolds' studies did not assess values of subjective probabilities [ 12], (b) psychological certainty is non-linearly related to a subjective-probability value [ 23], and the functional forms of subjective certainty for delayed rewards were not assessed in the studies, it is impossible to directly compare our present data with their data.

The terrorist attacks cast a cloud of suspicion over all forms of religious certainty, and the fumbled response of the religious right has led many to disengage from politics altogether.

A second kind of certainty is epistemic.

That kind of certainty is impossible.

Cultural identity forms a sphere of certainty, establishes a basis for communication and creates incentives for co- operation.

For G. E. Moore's response to skepticism, see his essays "Four Forms of Scepticism" and "Certainty" in Moore 1959.