Uncertainty and Possibility

Description Eleven peer-reviewed papers address the significant challenges associated with performing thermal measurements as part of fire standards development, tes...

Lifetime uncertainty represents an additional risk that affects intertemporal choice, because consumers may live longer than expected and run the risk of exhausting the resources a...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Ghent. Th...

It is argued in this chapter, on the basis of evidence from grammar, discourse, and verbal art, that for Amazonian Quichua speakers, there is a cultural preference for expressing u...

Uncertainty is a frequent and often uncomfortable element in the physician’s professional life. Its many overlapping sources range from biological variation in patients and disease...

In a world of endless predictions and precision algorithms The Power of Maybes offers a daring new way forward. What if uncertainty isn’t a problem to solve, but a gift? ...

The second of two forms of ontological uncertainty, previously introduced, is explored in detail. This form of uncertainty concerns the contention that not only is ontological comm...

This chapter discusses several more epistemic adjectives. Certain and its near-synonym sure are maximum adjectives that combine with proportional and percentage modifiers. A compar...