Sentence examples for undermine certainty from inspiring English sources

There is no gap between the knower and the known that might undermine certainty: "I say that the thing itself is known immediately without any medium between itself and the act by which it is seen or apprehended".

Scott Segal, a lobbyist with the Electric Reliability Coordinating Council, an industry group founded largely to advance the regulatory change, described the ruling as a setback, and added, "This stay motion and litigation undermine certainty for consumers and the regulated community".

The main role of this new breed of art-house movie seems to be reassurance, just as their predecessors specialized in undermining certainties and calling the ways of the world into question.

If he can somehow undermine that certainty that he's going to win, then of course he has a realistic chance of bringing some votes back".

Any change now would require a further change later, once these issues are resolved, and frequent budget changes would undermine the certainty that they are meant to provide.

It is a sop to those countries like the UK that want to pursue risky or dirty energy from nuclear, coal and shale gas, and will totally undermine investor certainty".

Due to the increased value and cost of male parental investment under conditions of greater female dependence, actions which undermine paternity certainty (and which thus reduce male motivation to produce parental investment), such as promiscuity, will become more threatening to both mated men and mated women.

They are playing political games and that undermines certainty".

Dr. Nuland, however, has a larger purpose in mind: to undermine smug certainties about modern science.

Over the next dozen years, these thoughtful, good-time young radicals set out to undermine the certainties of modern movement architecture and design.

Stating that "a critique of entrenched positions cannot itself be fixed and doctrinal", and noting that Shah's intent had always been to undermine false certainties, he argued that the "Shah myth" created by these writings may have been a teaching tool, rather than a tool of concealment; something "made to be deconstructed – that is supposed to dissolve when you touch it".