I was wholly ignorant of the bitter irony that in constantly seeking certainty, pure O-ers render themselves more uncertain.
But, unlike Brouwer, Weyl seems finally to have come to terms with the idea that mathematics could not simply be "taken by itself", that it has a larger role to play in the world beyond its service as a paradigm, however pure, of subjective certainty.
It is difficult therefore to identify with certainty pure series of patients with similar characteristics treated with and without radionuclide therapy, particularly as some physicians in countries without access to the treatment still send their patients abroad to receive it.
Although we believe the Yak and Bison samples used are genetically pure, without 100% certainty about the ancestry of our samples, some caution may be needed with our interpretations that rely on this aspect.
He suggests that during the war Wiener used his looks to attract people who agreed to help him, that his survival has more ambiguous meanings than the angry certainty of pure will that Wiener wrings out of it.
At first, the viewer's loyalties align with those of the detectives, craving certainty: the pure satisfaction of seeing a cop walk to the "big board" and change a red name -- the show's visual symbol of an open case -- to black.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs' assertion, on Fox News Sunday, of all deliberate places, that there will be a health-care bill passed this week is a declaration of brute political force and pure fuck you, no-accommodation certainty.
Because properly scientific cognition must satisfy these strict conditions, it requires "a pure part on which the apodictic certainty that reason seeks can be based" (4:469).
But it enables us to see why Kant thought that moral awareness unlike any other sort of experience gives us a practical certainty of our freedom, being "a fact in which pure reason in us proves itself actually practical" (5:42).
If Pluto's odyssey teaches us anything, it's that whenever we think we've discovered a measure of certainty about the universe, it's often fleeting, and more often pure dumb luck.
