But, mobilising the usual equation between empirical content and testability (common to Carnap, Popper and Feyerabend), he urged that we should decisively reject the ideal of certainty and opt instead for theories which go beyond experience and say something informative about reality itself.
But like Carnap's latter thesis and his syntactic approach of 1934, Schlick was concerned with both the Cartesian ideal of foundational certainty and Wittgenstein's metalinguistic problem of how language represents the reality it is about; such relation could only be shown, not said.
Tippett's answer is that while the need to rejoice remains, the twentieth century has put paid to the Romantic ideals of universality and certainty.
In China, not regimes but traditional ways of life, old cityscapes and ideologies were destroyed for state-monitored growth in capitalism and the development of new market economies, leaving "the Sixth Generation" to grow up with few certainties, ideals, heroes, few government-sponsored jobs and a general distaste and subsequent distancing from government corruption.
It has always been a part of Wisden's brief not just to sort and sift and record for posterity, but also to object, to hold to account, and generally offer a note of lament at the latest derogations from cricket's ideal yellow-jacketed state of certainty.
While safety concerns have not gone away--the crater floor looks rougher and windier than ideal for landing--the certainty of ancient waters sealed the deal for the scientists.
8pm and alcohol are not the ideal partners, but the one certainty with rugby crowds is that it doesn't lead to anything silly.
What makes the bald rooting interest forgivable, maybe, is the near-certainty that the ideal game is never, or almost never, going to happen.
And we realize Talmadge wants to be near Micah — near the strength of her personality and the certainty of her ideals — more than he wants to eat thrown-away vegetables.
Grossman said the reliance on renewable energy targets to achieve the transformation was far from ideal, since it didn't provide certainty to the market and wouldn't put downward pressure on prices.
