Sentence examples for more certain knowledge from inspiring English sources

In logic, however, where the instruments of science are considered, the nobler instrument is the one that is more precise and produces more certain knowledge.

These systems, covering a wide range of entrenched and influential metaphysical and theological views, purport to have discovered principles that give us a deeper and more certain knowledge of ultimate reality.

Participants did not judge that more certain knowledge would be gained about which treatment was best when treatments were allocated at random rather than by patient/doctor choice: scientific benefits of randomisation were apparently not recognised.

He pursued all three routes to God; and he even ranked them: Illumination arguments make us "certain" of God's existence; aitiological arguments give us "more certain" knowledge of God's existence; while ontological arguments show that God's existence is "a truth that is most certain in itself, in as far as it is the first and most immediate truth".[43] Let us look at each of them in turn.

In particular, the problems how we come to know causal laws, how scientific knowledge differs from other sorts of cognition, how mathematical knowledge differs from other sorts of scientific knowledge, and why mathematical knowledge is more certain, are explored in this literature.

The difference is that we are quite certain "the whole is greater than the part," because the terms involved in this axiom are so familiar to us; but about God's existence we have more an opinion than certain knowledge, because we lack an adequate definition of God's nature.

This principle is based on two main assumptions: The first assumption is that the more actively an individual applies certain knowledge, the better this knowledge is acquired.

Employers are looking less for a full-time employee with a certain knowledge set and more for someone who can solve a problem no one else on the team can solve.

Cusanus believes that no knowledge we have is more certain than mathematics, given that it is the construction of our own minds.

More neurotic women were less certain (R=0.18, p<.01) and felt less supported in decision making (R=0.15, p<.05); conscientious women felt more certain (R=-0.15, p<.05) and had more knowledge after viewing the DA (R=0.15, p<.05).

Despite the divorce rate, we continue to calculate our domestic opportunities with the certain knowledge that two can live more cheaply than one.