Sentence examples for provisional certainties from inspiring English sources
Science is an accretion of provisional certainties.
Many users commented that they would like to be able to group the problem list by a variety of criteria, including chronology, status (active or resolved), disease course (acute or chronic), certainty (established or provisional), organ system or importance.
Under his leadership, the Academics abandoned the radical skepticism of Arcesilaus and Carneades (who professed to live without rationally warranted beliefs) in favor of a form of mitigated skepticism allowing for provisional beliefs that did not claim certainty.
If Beckett fought the Nazis by lying in ditches, rifle at the ready, he also did so by countering their lethal certainties with a world in which everything is makeshift and provisional.
Unlike anything else here, it's a song of praise to fidelity and constancy, but that doesn't mean it doesn't ache with the certainty that the promise made in the title is likely to be provisional.
The parenthetical qualifications in the previous sentence acknowledge that the certainty these practices give us is, at least from the perspective of the long run, provisional; it can be replaced or overturned or dislodged.
This course outline is provisional.
They are inherently provisional.
It's provisional; it's provisional.
