He submitted that it is more meritorious for man to believe in God's existence by faith informed with love than to reach certainty by deductive reasoning.
Unlike "the sceptics, who doubt only for the sake of doubting," Descartes aims "to reach certainty — to cast aside the loose earth and sand so as to come upon rock or clay" (Discourse 3, AT 6 28 29).
In this study, we maintained blinded study protocol for the involved investigators, to diminish the inherent bias in the selection and to reach certainty and maintain internal validity of the results.
When it rose the next morning, though, he would revise up his estimate of the probability of its happening a third time — and so on, until he approached, but never quite reached, certainty.
When it rose the next morning, though, he would revise up his estimate of the probability of its happening a third time and so on, until he approached, but never quite reached, certainty.
Some felt that they never reached certainty and were always working with probabilities: "That feeling, that assessing…it of course always stays an estimation, uh.
But this reach for certainty – for psychological comfort – can damage your fake football squad.
My inability to reach unequivocal certainty about my sexual identity left me as fraught and exhausted as the obsessive who can never be sure that the door is locked.
The scientific community harbors no illusions that it has successfully deciphered all the complexities of the material universe, or can ever reach absolute certainty.
Additionally, and playing off the inherent complexity in the moral world as seen by Williams, is this reductionist element, or more broadly, the reach for certainty, and not merely in typical Utilitarian thought but moral theorising generally.
I believe the agreement we have reached provides certainty and security for the BBC over the settlement period.
