Most hunters, Mr. Chapel said, "do have a certain knowledge of what's required of them" in such potentially hazardous circumstances and do not simply blaze away.
In accordance with the Bayesian approach, once we have a certain knowledge of things, that is, some experimental data, E, that made us believe in the model M, then, depending on the degree of this belief, we can describe this knowledge by a prior probability (or simply prior) p(M| E, I), where I denotes any other information that we may have.
Inquiries of Hecataeus's kind had a certain practical application: knowledge of the world, in the most literal sense of that phrase, was of obvious usefulness in a city like Miletus with its colonial connections (in the Black Sea region) and its long-distance trade.
The supposedly Humean position has three basic assertions: that there is nothing more to causality than the regular sequence of phenomena, that such a regular sequence cannot give a necessary connection, and that, consequently, we can have no certain knowledge of causal relations.
Even though they have a certain type of knowledge, you also have knowledge.
By separating these two types of knowledge that the soul or mind has of itself, Olivi is in a position to explain why we do not have certain knowledge of the nature of the soul.
The basic assumption was that, whereas gods have certain knowledge of visible and invisible events, men have to search for clues and conjectures.
One school nurse concluded: "...we (school nurses) have a certain level of knowledge, but we don't have the knowledge that these parents that have spent hours researching- you know- they're sort of referring to twelve sources.
It is in the context of this theory that Autrecourt launches an attack on our claim to have certain knowledge of the existence of substances and causal relations.
