Missiles and information technology don't have the same metrics of reliability, but knowing both is an advantage, because for both of them reliability means freedom from failure.
Perhaps the first formulation of a reliability account of knowing appeared in a brief discussion by F.P. Ramsey (1931), who said that a belief is knowledge if it is true, certain and obtained by a reliable process.
If perspectives differ along the lines of social location, then one cannot necessarily trust one's own perspective as epistemically reliable in a particular area of knowledge and one will need to interact with others differently socially located in order to increase the reliability of one's knowing.
Thus, the system behaves as if an administrator determines the relative reliabilities of all members, knowing that the selection must ultimately account for the various utility functions of the members as well as their respective optimization behaviors.
The fact I wouldn't bleed and of course knowing it's reliability was that of a sterilisation.
The objective of this tool development process was to gather enough information so that readers could potentially make a decision to adopt the scale for their own use with cancer populations, knowing that adequate reliability and validity testing had been undertaken.
We found that affective learning enables knowing and increases the reliability of knowledge in such conditions.
Such folks might be willing to trade some reliability for the added safety of knowing that in a street brawl their gun can't be turned on them, and in fact some police forces have expressed interest in smart guns for this reason.
By knowing how to calculate the reliability of different substation configurations, an engineer can use this information to help design a system with the best overall reliability.
Parasuraman et al. (1985) defined the dimensions of service quality by reliability, responsiveness, competence, access, courtesy, communication, credibility, security, understanding, and knowing the customers and tangibles.
