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It is not possible to say categorically that climate change has caused any individual storm, flood or heatwave.But scientific attribution does not require certainty; it deals in probabilities.
This creates problems, says Daniel Bilak of CMS Cameron McKenna, a law firm, since civil law in general, and commercial law in particular, require certainty and predictability in their application.
Even if it trustworthiness doesn't require certainty, it is not the same thing as quick and easy decidability.
But while Rand takes knowledge to require certainty, she distinguishes certainty from infallibility or inerrancy: a judgment can be certain, within a given context of available knowledge, even if it needs to be revised in the light of new information.
He added: "I hope across parliament we recognise that a deal is better than no deal, and businesses require certainty - it's in our national interest to provide certainty as soon as possible". Michael Gove is not resigning because he thinks that even at this very late hour, he is the person who can make Theresa May change course with Brexit.
Indeed, calculative cultures of the wrong sort are already fostered and created through accounting regimes that urge and require certainty.
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If epistemic trustworthiness requires certainty, this requirement favors the phenomenalists.
That requires certainty about the future.
Section 8 housing requires certainty and stability for landlords but faces a political environment that provides neither.
Relying on offsets to achieve "no-net-loss" of biodiversity, however, requires certainty in their ecological integrity where they are used to sanction habitat destruction.
Xenophon has signalled his preference for talks to continue into the new year rather than a rushed deal being done next week, but Madigan said students and universities required certainty.
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