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certainty

[sur-tn-tee] / ˈsɜr tn ti /




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Mr. Morson, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Northwestern University, is the author of “Wonder Confronts Certainty: Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matter.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Certainty has a price, however, in terms of tax rises.

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2025

Certainty, he continues, “is the great enemy of unity. Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.”

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2024

Certainty about the smallest detectable flaw size allows more design freedom.

From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2023

For Locke there are ‘three degrees of Knowledge, viz. Intuitive, Demonstrative, and Sensitive: in each of which, there are different degrees and ways of Evidence and Certainty’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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