0 the state of being certain or confident: --
It is impossible to predict the outcome of the negotiations with any degree of certitude.
First, we concentrate on the most dangerous of all questions on which to aspire to certitude: namely, does it work?
It is a perennial feature of wisdom in this and other traditions that it eschews dogmatism or certitude.
As yet, merely possible or contingent existents, propositions, and states of a#airs have not been ruled out as candidates for certitude.
The attempt to represent ballet in effect separates the writer from his camp certitudes.
By invoking the certitudes and simplicities of an idealized past, religion bolsters the individual's capacity to face up to the uncertainties of fast-paced city life.
But if we require certitude, the problems lie elsewhere, as we have seen.
And it is clear that we only reach certitude concerning the mode of their occurrence from syllogisms composed from the like of these premises.
And it is that direct relation to the object of one's belief that must be present to guarantee certitude.
