Should any one ask a demonstration of it, we should by no means give any, but should maintain that the proposition is absolutely certain, that is, without any further foundation.
You will succeed almost always in your immediate object; and if you are unsuccessful in your first or second sales attempt you will be absolutely certain to get some other good opportunity very soon.
Even the master salesman can never be absolutely certain of the reception he will have from any prospect.
But if you keep on selling your services in the right way, you will be as absolutely certain to succeed as the master salesman of "goods" is sure of closing his quota every year he works.
An immutable basis of absolutely certain truths, therefore, for reasoning to start from, is nowhere to be found.
The logician has assumed that the only alternative to his belief in absolutely certain premisses is complete scepticism, arguing that it must be possible to start from certainty, because otherwise no knowledge would be possible at all.
Footnote 197: We cannot, however, be absolutely certain of this, for it is conceivable that males may still occur in colonies other than those examined.
Here then we have a case which is absolutely certain.
Either its propositions must be established independently of all experience in purely a priori fashion, and therefore as absolutely certain; or they must consist in hypotheses empirically grounded.
What in each special case the cause may be, can only be empirically discovered; and that any selected event is really the cause can never be absolutely certain.
It is just that I wonder if you want me to dredge this deeply into things I cannot be absolutely certain about.
But I can assure you that I am certain--absolutely certain!
In this case, no more than in the other, am I absolutely certain there was no trickery.
This objection could be verified or quashed by renewing the experiments at my house, in a room of my own, where I should be absolutely certain that no confederate could enter.
I don't for a moment believe that Mark Fenwick knew anything about our marriage, but on that point I cannot be absolutely certain.
The correspondent of the Press Association says that Mr. Bates has been interviewed by a foreign journalist, who is absolutely certain as to his identity.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "absolutely certain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
