Sentence examples for lack certainty from inspiring English sources

Trustworthiness is a feature of human relations that "is needed precisely when and because we lack certainty about others' future action: it is redundant when action or outcomes are guaranteed" (O'Neill 2002: 13).

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.

Even when we lack certainty in our own futures, we know we have a certain responsibility to the future of the world.

Most previous CTEV studies have either been based on routine data, which gives large sample sizes but lack certainty about the diagnosis of CTEV, or on small clinical series from single centres, which may be highly selected.

If regions from one atlas can not be mapped to regions from another atlas with high probability, then reconciling results based on these two anatomical references using region labels alone will lack certainty.

Although our hypothetical predictions regarding the exact mRNA signals recognized by RFH indeed lack certainty, we do predict (with high confidence) that this signal is different from RF1 and RF2.

And it is doing so after admitting it lacks certainty.

No one can accuse them just now of lacking certainty in that pursuit.

Even lacking certainty about facts, what emerges as the Cain story unfolds is a picture of a man with significant deficits in terms of temperament, judgment and, potentially, veracity.

Lacking certainty about a long-term American commitment to Afghanistan, some countries were holding back, waiting to see what the United States, the leader in shaping Afghan policy, would do.

The other path, the one he follows, involves lowering the bar by admitting a third kind of knowledge, one that lacks certainty: sensitive knowledge.