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Certainty. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007.

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Thien, Madeleine. Certainty. London: Faber and Faber, 2007.

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Rosmini, Antonio. Certainty. Durham: Rosmini House, 1991.

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1951-, Westphal Jonathan, ed. Certainty. Indianapolis: Hackett Pub. Co., 1995.

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Thien, Madeleine. Certainty. Toronto: Emblem Editions, 2007.

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Connors, Rose. Absolute certainty. New York: Scribner, 2002.

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Rhees, Rush, and D. Z. Phillips, eds. Wittgenstein'sOn Certainty. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/9780470776247.

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Tanenbaum, Robert. Immoral certainty. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: Dutton, 1991.

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Kirk, John T. O. Science & certainty. Collingwod, VIC: CSIRO Publishing, 2007.

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Romtvedt, David. Certainty: Poems. Fredonia, N.Y: White Pine Press, 1996.

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Ávila, Humberto. Certainty in Law. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33407-3.

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Wright, Crispin. Facts and certainty. London: Oxford University Press, 1986.

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Wyman, Henry H. Certainty in religion. New York: Columbus Press, 1986.

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Haloi, Ganesh. Uncertainty in certainty. Kolkata: Chitrakoot Art Gallery, 2002.

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Lassiter, Daniel. Certainty and possibility. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701347.003.0005.

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This chapter discusses several more epistemic adjectives. Certain and its near-synonym sure are maximum adjectives that combine with proportional and percentage modifiers. A comparison with non-modal adjectives suggests a ratio-scale classification with at least an upper bound. Several lines of evidence indicate that certainty and likelihood are formally closely related. However, there are puzzles around the interpretation of uncertain that indicate that the relation may not be one of identity. I consider three possible analyses, all of which have certain advantages and drawbacks. I then turn to possible, which is often claimed to be non-gradable. Naturalistic data indicate that possibility is a graded concept (e.g., increase the possibility of), and that possible is gradable (e.g., too/very/n% possible). While an analysis in terms of some kind of scalar coercion is technically feasible, the most natural explanation is that possible is a gradable adjective whose scale is closely related to likely’s scale.

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Pasnau, Robert. After Certainty. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198801788.001.0001.

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No part of philosophy is as disconnected from its history as is epistemology. After Certainty offers a reconstruction of that history as the story of an epistemic ideal first formulated by Plato and Aristotle, later developed throughout the Middle Ages, and then dramatically reformulated in the seventeenth century. In watching these debates unfold over the centuries, we come to understand why epistemology has traditionally been embedded within a much wider sphere of concerns about human nature and the reality of the world we live in. We also come to see why epistemology has become today a much narrower and specialized field, concerned with the conditions under which it is true to say, in English, that someone knows something. Looking back to earlier days, this study makes its way through the various and changing ideals of inquiry that have been pursued over the centuries, from the expectations of certainty and explanatory depth to the rising concern over evidence and precision, as famously manifested in the new science. At both the sensory and the intellectual levels, the initial expectation of infallibility is seen to give way to mere subjective indubitability, and in the end it is unclear whether anything remains of the epistemic ideals that philosophy has long pursued. All we may ultimately be left with is hope.

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Kirk, John TO. Science and Certainty. CSIRO Publishing, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643095311.

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How did the cosmos, and our own special part of it, come to be? How did life emerge and how did we arise within it? What can we say about the essential nature of the physical world? What can be said about the physical basis of consciousness? What can science tell or not tell us about the nature and origin of physical and biological reality? Science and Certainty clears away the many misunderstandings surrounding these questions. The book addresses why certain areas of science cause concern to many people today – in particular, those which seem to have implications for the meaning of human existence, and for our significance on this planet and in the universe as a whole. It also examines the tension that can exist between scientific and religious belief systems. Science and Certainty offers an account of what science does, in fact, ask us to believe about the most fundamental aspects of reality and, therefore, the implications of accepting the scientific world view. The author also includes a historical and philosophical background to a number of environmental issues and argues that it is only through science that we can hope to solve these problems. This book will appeal to popular science readers, those with an interest in the environment and the implications of science for the meaning of human existence, as well as students of environmental studies, philosophy, ethics and theology.

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Ray, Greg. Tarski on the Concept of Truth. Edited by Michael Glanzberg. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199557929.013.27.

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Alfred Tarski’s work on truth has been so central to the discourse on truth that most coming to it for the first time have probably already heard a great deal about what is said there. Unfortunately, since the work is largely technical and Tarski was only tangentially philosophical, a certain incautious assimilation dominates many philosophical discussions of Tarski’s ideas, and so, examining Tarski on the concept of truth is in many ways an act of unlearning. This chapter will focus on key ideas in Tarski’s work that have had a lasting impact: T-sentence, Convention T, Tarskian truth definition, and Tarski’s general limiting theses on the expressibility and definability of truth. Though these ideas are familiar in name, the chapter seeks to uncover and remove certain widespread misunderstandings. Tarski’s name also features prominently in discussions of the liar paradox, so we will discuss Tarski’s misunderstood connection to this ancient puzzle.

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Vanzo, Alberto. Kant and Abstractionism about Concept Formation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190608040.003.0014.

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This chapter outlines Kant’s account of empirical concept formation and discusses two objections that have been advanced against it. Kant holds that we form empirical concepts, such as color concepts, by comparing sensory representations of individuals, identifying shared features, and abstracting from the differences between them. According to the first objection, we cannot acquire color concepts in this way because there is no feature that all and only the instances of a given color share, and because the boundary between colors is conventional. According to the second objection, assuming that all instances of a given color share certain features, we can identify them only if we already possess a concept of that color. Neither of the objections is convincing as it stands. Kant can offer replies to both objections that are consistent with his views and with empirical evidence concerning the perception and representation of colors.

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Butz, Martin V., and Esther F. Kutter. Decision Making, Control, and Concept Formation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198739692.003.0012.

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While attention controls the internal, mental focus of attention, motor control directs the bodily control focus. Our nervous system is structured in a cascade of interactive control loops, where the primary self-stabilizing control loops can be found directly in the body’s morphology and the muscles themselves. The hierarchical structure enables flexible and selective motor control and the invocation of motor primitives and motor complexes. The learning of motor primitives and complexes again adheres to certain computational systematicities. Redundant behavioral alternatives are encoded in an abstract manner, enabling fast habitual decision making and slower, more elaborated planning processes for realizing context-dependent behavior adaptations. On a higher level, behavior can be segmented into events, during which a particular behavior unfolds, and event boundaries, which characterize the beginning or the end of a behavior. Combinations of events and event boundaries yield event schemata. Hierarchical combinations of event schemata on shorter and longer time scales yield event taxonomies. When developing event boundary detectors, our mind begins to develop environmental conceptualizations. Evidence is available that suggests that such event-oriented conceptualizations are inherently semantic and closely related to linguistic, generative models. Thus, by optimizing behavioral versatility and developing progressively more abstract codes of environmental interactions and manipulations, cognitive encodings develop, which are supporting symbol grounding and grammatical language development.

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Pedullà, Gabriele. Machiavelli’s Prince and the Concept of Tyranny. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199394852.003.0012.

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This chapter concludes the volume with an examination of Machiavelli as a theorist who enacted a willful and radical break with the past, yet endorsed most of his predecessors’ tenets. It begins with Machiavelli’s provocative omission of the term ‘tyrant’—in favor of the euphemism ‘new prince’—and his reassessment of ‘tyrannical’ behaviors as princely prudence. These maneuvers earned Machiavelli the ire of generations of commentators, yet the chapter argues that they misread him. Rather than denying the existence of pragmatically and morally evil lords, Machiavelli redraws the boundary between them and good rulers. Instrumental in this is his concept of glory, which can only be recognized retrospectively as it reveals itself in the fullness of time. Thus, Machiavelli implies, it is impossible to know for certain whether a present ruler is a good prince or a tyrant.

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Michael, Furmston, Tolhurst G J, and Mik Eliza. 1 Formation and the Concept of Agreement. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198724032.003.0001.

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This chapter provides an overview of the objective theory of contract and the concept of agreement. The objective theory dictates that when determining whether or not a statement made by a person was intended to form the basis of a contract, it is construed by reference to a reasonable person in the position of the party to whom the statement is directed. Thus, when trying to determine whether a statement was intended to be an offer, it is construed by reference to a reasonable person in the position of the offeree. An agreement requires that the parties agree the terms of bargain, that those terms be certain and complete, and that the bargain is informed by an intention to contract as well as an intention to immediately assume legal obligations. The final section discusses whether contract formation is an issue of fact or law.

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Bevine, Victor. Certainty. Lake Union Publishing, 2014.

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madeleine-thien. Certainty. Faber and Faber, 2007.

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Certainty. Faber & Faber, Limited, 2007.

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Thien, Madeleine. Certainty. Little Brown & Company, 2007.

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Certainty. Little Brown & Company, 2007.

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Maxa, L. P. Certainty. Boroughs Publishing Group, 2019.

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Thien, Madeleine. Certainty. Emblem Editions, 2007.

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Thien, Madeleine. Certainty. McClelland & Stewart, 2006.

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Thien, Madeleine. Certainty. Little Brown & Company, 2007.

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Thien, Madeleine. Certainty. Little Brown & Company, 2007.

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Thien, Madeleine. Certainty. Granta Books, 2017.

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Dyan, Penelope. Certainty. Bellissima Publishing, LLC, 2022.

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Certainty. Independently Published, 2021.

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Hunt, Vanessa J. Clean Eating Concept: Certain Health Benefits. Discover Everything You Need to Live a Clean Lifestyle. Independently Published, 2018.

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Tanenbaum, Robert. Immoral Certainty. Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2010.

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Wainwright, Samuel. Christian Certainty. Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2007.

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Culbert, Jennifer L. Dead Certainty. Stanford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781503626829.

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Cordes, Alvin. Certainty Evangelism. Xulon Press, 2005.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On Certainty. Blackwell Publishing Professional, 1996.

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Hall, Kate. Certainty Dream. Coach House Books, 2005.

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Sheres, Richard. Imperfect Certainty. Vendemmia Press, 2019.

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Rhodes, Marcella. Relative Certainty. Independently Published, 2017.

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Menasse, Robert. Meaningful Certainty. Calder Publications Ltd, 2000.

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Schubert, Frank D. Modest Certainty. University Press of America, Incorporated, 2012.

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Holt, John. Dead Certainty. Lulu Press, Inc., 2015.

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Immoral Certainty. Signet, 1994.

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Brice, Robert Greenleaf. Exploring Certainty. Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2014.

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Schubert, Frank D. Modest Certainty. University Press of America, Incorporated, 2012.

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