Sentence examples for genuine certainty from inspiring English sources

I felt a rude but genuine certainty that recording major incidents of this nature would work as a type of personal prophylaxis.

The persistent absence of all this propels us, facing a genuine certainty, into the actions and behaviors that seem to hold some promise that life is still worth living.

The basic problems are (i) that the difficulty of finding 'the best' or 'a good' solution scales exponentially with the number of variables in the system, and (ii) that a genuine certainty that one has found the best possible solution means trying each of them (which is usually unfeasible).

The nucleus of the anthology is authentic poems by Theognis, but it is not possible to distinguish with certainty the genuine poetry of Theognis from later additions.

We should note, however, that the overall focus of Autrecourt's project was to persuade us that our various judgments about the natural world, including those concerning genuine causal connections, lack certainty, and that we thus ought to suspend judgment in such matters.

In this way, it allows more alternative ways of function assignments, and if a function is assigned in spite of all those possibilities, we can consider it to be a genuine function, with more certainty.

Replacing the panels would have required removing the Discovery from the launching pad, delaying its next flight by 60 days when there was no certainty of a genuine problem, he said.

BUT even in a potentially meaningless universe where civilizations crumble, institutions collapse and creatures fade into extinction, there are still a few mathematical certainties: things of genuine quality tend to eternally recur, especially if they're made of heavy cotton duck or decent leather.

When we add the parlor tricks of social science to try to describe a deterministic, mechanical world of predictable outcomes we sacrifice a genuine search for truth to superficial certainty.

But the prosecutor and judge must press for absolute certainty that there is genuine reason for halting the process of justice in a case that has been afflicted with so many unjustified delays.

The window of genuine, informed fear, when possibility turns from expectation to certainty, is narrow, 24 or perhaps 48 hours before landfall.