CERTAINTY

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Definitions

1. he walks over to the wall and pushes the button and the lights go on. He knows if he goes over to the wall and pushes that button the lights will go on, that's all. That's what's known as certainty. He doesn't hope the lights will go on, he knows they will. (ESTO 12, 7203CO6 Soil)

2. the degree of willingness to accept the awareness of an is-ness. (SH Spec 84, 6612C13)

3. knowledge itself is certainty; knowledge is not data. Knowingness is certainty. Sanity is certainty, providing only that that certainty does not fall beyond the conviction of another when he views it. To obtain a certainty one must be able to observe. (COHA, p. 187)

4. knowingness—knowing one knows—a state of beingness. (PAB 29)

5. measurement of the effort and locations and distances necessary to make two points coincide at a certain instant in time. And that is really a low level certainty. That is certainty in terms of motion. (5311CM17A)

6. clarity of observation. (COHA, p. 190)