0 the state of being certain or confident:
It is impossible to predict the outcome of the negotiations with any degree of certitude.
Truth is a more or less permanent state of complete rational satisfaction created in our minds by the concordance of reality with certitude.
What he does do is to provide some pathways between the high ground of technical certitude and the swamp of the individual case.
And the eternity condition narrows the range of certitude to ' 'necessary intelligibles,' ' which it seems unlikely that one could know merely accidentally.
The uncertainties and anxieties that accompany this fast pace of change leaves them hankering after the imagined certitudes and securities of a more 'stable' past.
The book undermined the certitudes of the philosophy of science.
This is true knowledge and seeing with certitude.
The rubidium-strontium method applied to sediments: certitudes and uncertainties.
And it is that direct relation to the object of one's belief that must be present to guarantee certitude.