How to pronounce “certainties” in English

he was the leading philosopher in the country um he uh grasped at a time when people were getting used to the ideathat there were no Eternal certainties there's no divine plan that's leading us to where we're going that this might notbe terrifying this might actually be liberating there's no Eternal truth that we're trying to find there's no perfect

of just one human life.When I think back to the certainties that teenager had about how to raise kids and what to do and discipline them--at that point of my life, I was into Calvinist theology I was raised in that I was the head of the home,

There should be a balance.We can't just fall back on the old certainties, because they don't work.

Now I want to go to a little passage which really tells the same story of growth and uncertainty, but in a different context.In a sense of growing away from the certainties about career path, and the picture I had of what success is all about,and how I would more measure that today.

Using Bayes' rule and Bans, Turing began calculating credibility values for various kinds of hunches and compiling reference tables of Bans for technicians to use. It was a statistic-basedtechnique, produced no absolute certainties, but when the odds of a hypothesis added up to 50 to one, cryptanalysts could be close to certain that they were right."Now, Turing was obviously developing a home grown Bayesian system. No one knows where he got it, whether he discovered it and developed it on his own, with his assistant Jack Good,

What's your relationship with your lover and your child?from the idea of human relationships and you begin from the idea of rejecting these certainties that you hang everything on-- get your PhD,

So the increase in entropy is a probabilistic statement of the universe.It's just there's so many particles out there that those probabilities become almost certainties.There are even games that people play-- yeah, I like that.

Of course I have beliefs.I think the key is to know when your beliefs are beliefs or when your beliefs are certainties or truth.It's not the same thing.

We should just call it the sun and get on with our day.But the danger is that you end up shrinking your world down to the size of your certainties.And you live in the story you tell yourself about the world rather than the world itself.