{
  "id": "certain.confidence",
  "term": "certain",
  "sense": "confidence",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 8,
  "arena": "certain",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a state where knowledge is about a real thing and does not differ from it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "real.actual",
      "just.exact",
      "difference.relation",
      "knowledge.cognitive",
      "state.condition"
    ],
    "interaction": "the real thing is and the just exact condition does not differ, together they form a state",
    "novel_properties": [
      "undivided knowing",
      "persistent correspondence",
      "congruent existence"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Hubble Space Telescope's gyroscopes failed repeatedly, requiring five servicing missions to restore precise pointing accuracy.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, the U.S. Census Bureau reported a 0.24% net undercount of non-Hispanic white adults, reflecting deviations from actual population totals.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "A bee accurately dances to indicate a food source 200 meters northeast, matching the actual location within 5 degrees and 10 meters.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "just.exact",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "non.negation",
    "sure.confidence"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "certain"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added missing constitutive concepts from definition: difference.relation, knowledge.cognitive, and state.condition were required to support the described state. Definition remained accurate and concis"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-certain.confidence"
}