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单词 moral certainty
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Definition of moral certainty in English:

moral certainty

noun
mass noun
  • Probability so great as to allow no reasonable doubt.

    it enjoys moral certainty and consequently has a normative role
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The war is seen as a moral certainty, a fight between good and evil.
    • The moral certainty which is a good thing in a churchman is a liability in a politician.
    • Yet what if you believe, to a moral certainty, that the confession is a fabrication and the defendant didn't do it?
    • And I guess, from a standpoint of the criminal case, you know, it was a question of whether or not the evidence was proven beyond a reasonable doubt to moral certainty.
    • They seem to relish the moral certainty of Stalinism: ‘We can be made into better human beings,’ he says.
    • The fundamentalist worldview is, consequently, rooted in absolute moral certainty.
    • We don't know that beyond a reasonable doubt and a moral certainty, but I believe he's still alive, myself.
    • In each of those cases, the prosecutors of course thought to a moral certainty that they had the right guy and that there was no doubt that this was a man who deserved to die, and the prosecutors in each of those cases were dead wrong.
    • Religious texts, and even the existence of God, taken on their own, fail entirely to establish moral obligation or moral certainty.
    • But even where there are gaps in memory, all of us have a moral certainty about things that in particular situations we would or would not have done.
    • Arnold thus knew with moral certainty that within minutes of anyone complaining about his insult, Hans and Franz would be experiencing a comeback.
    • Those who want ‘moral certainty’ may find themselves wondering how much moral certainty we can ever have about a system of justice administered by sinful human beings prone to sloth and prejudice.
    • Shouldn't we admire zealous people who ‘believe in something,’ who burn with moral certainty?
    • Possessed of a moral certainty that we were absolutely right, and that God was on our side, we stomped the opposition into submission or extinction.
    • His cause has been just, and he has sent troops in with the moral certainty that he is doing right.
 
 

Definition of moral certainty in US English:

moral certainty

noun
  • Probability so great as to allow no reasonable doubt.

    it enjoys moral certainty and consequently has a normative role
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Possessed of a moral certainty that we were absolutely right, and that God was on our side, we stomped the opposition into submission or extinction.
    • In each of those cases, the prosecutors of course thought to a moral certainty that they had the right guy and that there was no doubt that this was a man who deserved to die, and the prosecutors in each of those cases were dead wrong.
    • Shouldn't we admire zealous people who ‘believe in something,’ who burn with moral certainty?
    • And I guess, from a standpoint of the criminal case, you know, it was a question of whether or not the evidence was proven beyond a reasonable doubt to moral certainty.
    • The moral certainty which is a good thing in a churchman is a liability in a politician.
    • But even where there are gaps in memory, all of us have a moral certainty about things that in particular situations we would or would not have done.
    • Those who want ‘moral certainty’ may find themselves wondering how much moral certainty we can ever have about a system of justice administered by sinful human beings prone to sloth and prejudice.
    • The fundamentalist worldview is, consequently, rooted in absolute moral certainty.
    • We don't know that beyond a reasonable doubt and a moral certainty, but I believe he's still alive, myself.
    • Religious texts, and even the existence of God, taken on their own, fail entirely to establish moral obligation or moral certainty.
    • Yet what if you believe, to a moral certainty, that the confession is a fabrication and the defendant didn't do it?
    • Arnold thus knew with moral certainty that within minutes of anyone complaining about his insult, Hans and Franz would be experiencing a comeback.
    • The war is seen as a moral certainty, a fight between good and evil.
    • His cause has been just, and he has sent troops in with the moral certainty that he is doing right.
    • They seem to relish the moral certainty of Stalinism: ‘We can be made into better human beings,’ he says.
 
 
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