0 something that cannot be doubted: --
1 something that is very likely to happen: --
[ + to infinitive ] Joan is a certainty to win.
Joan will win - that's a certainty.
3 something that has no possibility of any other result; something that you know will happen in a particular way: --
There are few certainties in life.
In fact the authorities, still fearing the nostalgic power of communism with its absolute certainties and law and order of the strong-arm variety, closed the square, anticipating an ambivalent celebration.
Contemporary questioning of methodological certainties raises the question of how the project of an experimental social psychology arose in the first place.
What happens to those who wish for the old certainties of the lifecourse is another aspect of earlyretirement that needs to be addressed.
He placed today's satirists in a context where old liberal left certainties were less clear.
The certainties of the fuzzy prototypes and the matching degree are expressed by means of linguistic values.
The old certainties have crumbled and it is important that we make space for different approaches and previously ignored aspects of the subject.
Still, some of the things perceived could unsettle pre-philosophical certainties and stimulate the quest for philosophical knowledge.
What business had the government in unsettling opinions, disturbing the certainties of identity and outlook?
