单词 | non-certainty |
释义 | non-certaintyn. Uncertainty.Apparently Obsolete or rare in the 18th and 19th centuries.Sometimes with contextual distinction between non-certainty and uncertainty. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [noun] unwitternessa1300 were1303 unsickernessc1340 uncertaintyc1380 non-certainc1390 doubta1400 unsureness1430 untrust1430 unsuretyc1460 non-certainty1475 incertain1502 doubtfulness1530 uncertitudea1556 incertitude1603 incertainty1609 dubiosity1646 dubiousness1651 dubietyc1750 1376 Rolls of Parl. II. 335/2 La Commune ad soeffert grande meschief & damage par cause de la non-certeintee de Paiement pur Prove de Testament.] 1475 Rolls of Parl. VI. 129/2 By cause of the noun certeynte of the lyfe of the said Galiard. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (St. John's Cambr.) 71 (MED) Nown certeyntees [a1500 Rawl. For among the grette dredis and the vncerteyntees is the preeff of good hope more shyning and more laudable]. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng vi. f. 5v The declaracyon of this statute is doutfull, bycause of the none certentie therof. a1626 F. Bacon Wks. (1852) 278 So if the king grant land.., this is void for the non-certainty, and shall be held of the king in capite. 1950 Jrnl. Philos. 47 484 Not certainty but probability is the key word of modern science. The tentative nature of this philosophy suggests a highly flexible normative social theory, one willing to live with non-certainty if not uncertainty. 1967 Amer. Econ. Rev. 57 1047 Current approaches to the problem of selecting among alternative investment proposals..have one or more shortcomings, the major one being the treatment of non-certainty. 1996 Jrnl. Marriage & Family 58 599 These cases were weighted to adjust for differential probabilities of selection into the survey, differential nonresponse, and (of the noncertainty subsample) the one-in-six subsampling of Part I respondents into Part II. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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