Certainties

The ascription of an alethic morphology to the mass of epistemic certainties is always ultimately a premise in and of itself, a supposition of relevance. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

"Lobo" fans can still harbor some hope, as Silver doesn't speak in certainties. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My first thought on hearing this summary of Buddhism was how very much it reminded me of Rudolf Bultmann's definition of faith in keeping with the existentialist Christian tradition as depending on nothing but God, as letting go of all so-called certainties, including doctrinal and religious ones, which turn out to be idols when we cling to them. ❋ James F. McGrath (2007)

In fact, we now know as certainties, various articles of which no record is to be found in any ancient writer; for the affairs of ❋ Abd Salam Shabeeny (N/A)

All other so-called certainties are beliefs of greater or less intensity. ❋ Huxley, Leonard (1900)

Then there come the lesser certainties, that is to say, the certainties that justify practical action. ❋ Arthur Christopher Benson (1893)

Beyond the task of extricating women's liberation from the straightjacket of male-conceived leftist 'certainties' concerning emancipation, 'neofeminists', as the mass organisations sometimes referred to them, emphasised the distinct, equally systematic exploitation of women by men, adding women's sexuality and reproductive function as key sites of a power struggle, in addition to the relatively well-theorised impact of the capitalist mode of production on gender relations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While the term postmodernism is often used to describe an aesthetic, artistic worldview characterized by a distrust of theories and ideology, I think it usefully applies (or rather should apply) to the "certainties" on both sides in the religion vs. atheism debate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They expected the same kind of certainties they had known before. ❋ Child, Lee (2007)

For someone criticizing those with absolutist dedication to unchangeable 'certainties' his tone seems remarkably absolutist and certain. ❋ Unknown (2005)

I will take science's uncertainties over the far-right's bogus "certainties" any day. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Maybe the difficulties that they’re facing in selling hope-and-change are evidence that their certainties are at fault. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And you may draw sight drafts against the fact that when there's a whole lot depending on one of these Heaven-insured "certainties" it's time to get scared and hustle. ❋ Unknown (1904)

Like all of his class, he knew many "certainties," and he offered, with engaging frankness, to put me in the way of ❋ James Runciman (1871)

Those are only some of the "certainties" put forward by global warming supporters about which there is no scientific consensus. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With help from neuroscience, molecular biology, pharmacology, psychology, and genetics, they're challenging their own hard-core assumptions and popular "certainties" and finding surprisingly common characteristics among addictions. ❋ Joann Ellison Rodgers (2010)

He came to praise New Labour themes - on crime, economic efficiency and business - only to bury them, Gorbachev style, as "certainties" that had become "old thinking". ❋ Unknown (2010)

"The thing that is clear to us and that we can say with certainty is that [this plane] was not hit by [a missile]." CAOI - [10th January] 2020 ❋ Facette (2020)

Did you see that Certainty Pimp on TV? He says the recent [cold snap] is proof that [global warming] is a complete [hoax]. ❋ Peter Kobs (2009)

Idiot: [The Certainty Principle] protects me [Smart Person]: Fuck [you're an idiot] and deserve to die Gun shot finishes conversation ❋ Honneamise (2018)

Young Liberals during the Trump era have a Nazi Certainty about them. They're sure that their violence and [anti-establishment] behavior is getting them a brighter tomorrow. But like [Hitler's] Nazis, these stupid [little people] are only tools for destructive leaders who will dispense of them the minute they aren't useful anymore. ❋ Geekmalone (2020)