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A property of such people is a tendency to align themselves with authorities, or to bring themselves in positions of authority, and most often with respect to some ideological or belief system that is upheld as some absolute truth or certaintude by authoritarian decree.
An Astronomical Perspective on Climate Change | Universe Today 2009
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A birth is a recordable event and medical history can point with an absolute certaintude when it occurred.
March 2006 2006
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But I see that turning things on their heads and claiming moral certaintude/superiority/goodness is #1 in the republican playbook.
Think Progress » Bush on Immigration: Wherever The Political Winds Blow 2005
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In other words, I believe we can with near certaintude say that if global temperatures continue to rise, there will be a rise in sea level due to the melting of glaciers and thermal expansion of the oceans, but that projections of drought, hyper-intensive storms, mass extinctions, and other calamities, etc. are somewhat less certain.
RealClimate 2009
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