Sentence examples for question of certainty from inspiring English sources

It's no longer a question of certainty," he adds, only whether we're 68percentt or 98percentt certain that global warming is accelerating.

"This debate was birthed as a question of certainty -- we wanted to be certain that we were executing the right people," Mr. Lyons said.

But I include this discussion here because I believe the question of certainty and probability will be a key aspect of this debate throughout the day.

During the dialogue, according to Leslie H. Lowe, one of the participants, who was at that time the director of the energy-and-environment program at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, "They were really dancing around the question of certainty" about the risks of global warming and the evidence that man-made activity such as oil and gas use contributed.

With regard to the issue of the representation of natural phenomena as part of the environmental disciplines (and more generally in that of "life sciences"), today the matter is the discussed question of the certainty of knowledge.

Epistemology must address not only "the question of the certainty of knowledge that is lasting", but also the neglected question of "the integrity of an experience that is ephemeral" (SW 1, 100).

Julian Miller, a senior government official who deals with intelligence and security, said at the inquiry that in the preparation of last September's dossier, defense and intelligence officials questioned the level of certainty that should be publicly ascribed to the intelligence material relating to Iraq's unconventional weapons.

It's a question of probability, not certainty – an underlying predisposition, as it were, that might be triggered by unpredictable events.

First, reliance upon the precautionary principle might attract the support of people who question the certainty of the science but recognize the large risks associated with global warming.

But the Senate report shows that by at least 2004, company executives were aware that the Record trial was going so poorly that it would never answer the heart question with any kind of certainty.

Earlier this week I posted on uncertainty in climate model projections, raising the question of whether lack of certainty made the future more or less "scary" - and what it should mean for policymaking.