Sentences with phrase «rather than a certainty»

It serves to establish a burden of proof rather than certainty.

Liberals encourage an openness to truth from any source, a tolerance for a variety of viewpoints, and a humility that bases its claims on probabilities rather than certainties.

This risk must be taken if our concern is the maximum probable human benefit rather than the certainty of keeping our own consciences spotless.

They were concerned with the differentiations of colour rather than certainties, and the potential to develop an internal logic of colour names.

But the IPCC statement IS the proposition, and the flag as applied here describes the attribution of causes rather than the certainty or uncertainty of the proposition.

When everything is placed in context — it argues for uncertainty rather than certainty.

Not exact matches

We don't know, but for important institutions we need a high level of certainty that key decision - makers are exercising their judgment in the interests of those they serve, rather than themselves.

If her government had spent the last three years negotiating on aboriginal title with First Nations — rather than spending millions of taxpayers» dollars fighting a losing battle against the Tsilhqot» in — there would today be more opportunity and benefits for First Nations and greater certainty for investors and workers on where and how LNG related pipelines and plants will proceed.

Perhaps that confuses more than clarifies my position but I'll be the first to admit that I have not yet found the clarity that I seek and yet I would rather be where I am now than in the blind certainty of previous years when I thought I had it all figured out but was in fact wearing blinders that made it easier to look straight ahead but caused me to miss out on so much of the beauty of God all around me.

That is this lack of clarity and certainty which does not really help but bring us back to ourselves and our experiences and deeds rather than trust in the proclamation of grace.

Epistemologically, these experiences will be marked by the qualities of openness, tentativity, and relativity, rather than closedness, certainty, or absoluteness.

The truth is that a God of unlimited intelligence would loses no providential advantage anticipating possibilities rather than a single certainty.

And when people project this limitation onto God, they assume that a God who faced possibilities rather than a single certainty has much less control over things than the God who faces a single certainty.

I suppose I'd rather freedom than certainty.

Maybe this is why Paul paradoxically advised the brainy Greeks (2Cor4) to keep their attention focused on the eternal UN-seen (faith) rather than their own certainties.

In speaking of eternal life, Cranmer was wise to point to a blessed hope rather than to a triumphant certainty.

a truth fully appreciated in many historic segments of Christianity that have chosen to live with the fragility of this truth, rather than with the certainty — and presumed finality — of magisterial truth.

They are continually open to revision and must be regarded as probabilities rather than as certainties.

The implication of the new subatomic physics was that certainty was replaced by probability, or the notion of tendencies rather than absolutes: «we can never predict an atomic event with certainty; we can only predict the likelihood of its happening»... This directly contradicts the mechanistic model we explored above, and it implies that a subject such as normal birth needs to be looked at as a whole rather than its parts...»

Since the best psychiatrist can not predict who will kill others or e selves with any certainty, there is a high risk that suicides will actually increase rather than decrease as intended.

It requires only an «opinion» rather than a determination «with a reasonable degree of medical certainty.»

A genuine «all of the above» approach would expand opportunities for production rather than stifle them, open land for development rather than restrict it, replace confusion and red tape with regulatory certainty, and could position the U.S. as a top global energy producer for decades to while enhancing the energy security of our nation.

Each atom's state can not be known with certainty until it is measured with the laser pulse — that is, it is probabilistic rather than deterministic — so the measurements can be used to generate an intrinsically random string of binary digits.

«This has implications for astrophysics... while we can not say with certainty, this finding likely favors the theory that these two black holes formed separately in a dense stellar cluster, sank to the core of the cluster and then paired up, rather than being formed together from the collapse of two already paired stars,» adds Cadonati.

They know they'll both probably die, but that certainty has pushed them closer together, rather than farther apart.

Now, in this Berlin Silver Bear winner from Mia Hansen - Løve — writer - director of such intimate films as Father of My Children and Goodbye First Love — Huppert delivers a note - perfect warm and wry performance as a philosophy teacher whose life is defined by ideas rather than circumstance, a woman of substance — intellectual, emotional, financial — who faces unexpected constraints and freedoms when the assumed certainties of her domestic life unravel.

Many advisors would rather follow a false certainty, than have to think for themselves, and have to deal with the complexity of the markets.

We've elected to sell our stock on market rather than tender to Tiberius Capital because there's no certainty that Tiberius Capital will be successful, and it's time to get as far away from MATH's management as humanly possible.

They were happy to see the value of the firm grow at a reasonable rate with near - certainty, rather than a rapid rate with a moderate probability of failure.

People would rather have false certainty than live in the reality that choosing good investments is difficult.

Five minutes of coding can cook up things which take five months to fix, but it would be nice if publishers started waiting until they had a strong certainty that there game will be finished on time, rather than stating release dates months in advance and then having to announce numerous delays.

The monster design is both excellent and sickening (one of the creatures cuts their own throat rather than let you kill them), the constant pervasive darkness unnerving, and the certainty that literally nowhere is safe combines into a superb horror title.

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Ivan Grilo By taking some of the less - travelled routes through the story of Latin America, resisting its certainties while accepting its confusions, the São Paulo - based artist is reconstructing history as something useful rather than oppressive.

We try to get around this by talking about high - level themes, rather than detailed deliverables, which gives certainty over the direction and focus, but flexibility in terms of how we actually achieve things.

rather than currently unknown with any known certainty.

They happily convert maybes into certainties for short term fame and funding but when they are proven wrong they blame it on someone else rather than admit their mistake.

More interesting still, Oreskes seems to agree with the «deniers» that scientific certainty — rather than doubt — should drive action.

ExxonMobil's position on climate change thus focuses on the uncertainty of specific impacts, rather than the big - picture certainty that there will be impacts, and that they could be catastrophic.

«Uncertainty should make us worry more than certainty, because uncertainty means that things can be worse than our best guess... in the case of climate change, uncertainty is asymmetrical and things are more likely to be worse, rather than better, than expected.»

However, Kelly Sims Gallagher is not merely a coincidentally handy local Tufts University professor, she has direct connections with the same set of leaked industry memo phrases seen within the growing numbers of California global warming lawsuits — the «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact» strategy phrase and the «older, less - educated males» / «younger, lower - income women» targeting phrases — which are widely repeated elsewhere as proof that the fossil fuel industry «pays skeptic climate scientists to participate in misinformation campaigns» undermining the certainty of catastrophic man - caused global warming (despite those memos being worthless as evidence, but that is another matter).

As we read the report, we're likely to assume that a number represents a degree of statistical certainty, rather than an expert's confidence in his or her opinion.

there will be a corresponding desire to sell certainty rather than doubt.

But as I kept hearing more and more claims of certainty and consensus around anthropogenic climate castrophe, I could not help but see the claims as the outcome of a social process rather than a scientific one.

Such misinformation only sticks because of unrealistic images and expectations of science, e.g., that, unlike life, it can deliver proof and certainty rather than probabilities.

Happily, Hsu debunks the notion of «emissions certainty» that was used to sell cap - and - trade, by pointing out that for a «stock» pollutant such as CO2 that persists in the atmosphere for a century, the objective must be cumulative rather than annual reductions.

This is acceptable under the rubric of the precautionary principle, which allows policymakers to aim to be safe rather than sorry by accepting approximations of «science» in lieu of certainty.

She's defending the latter point (that we don't know if it paused or not with any certainty) rather than her statements that are actually controversial.

Rather than scientists demanding real data, everyone has been drawn into the alarmists» fight, where scientific certainty WILL NEVER HAPPEN.

If you have no idea what is going on why would you pursue a very expensive course of action rather than doing nothing until you have a reasonable degree of certainty.