According to Beccaria, a punishment must be certain to follow from the crime in order to be an effective deterrent. The greater the extent to which a would-be offender thinks that she can get away with a crime, the less she will weigh the punishment into her deliberation of whether or not to commit the crime. See also celerit and severity, or play the proportionality game
Dogmatically stating or implying that one's position is correct and others' ideas are not worth considering. Likely to arouse defensiveness, according to Gibb.
(1) Assurance of ones beliefs (also certitude). (2) The impossibility of a proposition being false. VT emphasized that Christian truth is certain and should be presented as a certainty, not a mere probability, q.v.
An event that is certain to happen in a probability experiment. Example:Drawing an odd number when selecting one number from a bag containing 6 slips of paper with the numbers 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11 on them
The only certainty in Trans-Biological Kinesis is that there is no certainty. The word certainty is used in a pejorative sense to indicate an arrogant, closed mind-set that short-changes the human imagination.
means that the patient is told that they will receive treatment within the next six months and that the treatment date will be provided closer to the time.