# sure (confidence)

to be certain and just

- Computed level: L9 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: everyday  ·  Arena: sure

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [certain](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-certain.confidence), [just](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-just.exact)

**Through:** the confidence of being certain combined with exactness creates assured certainty

**Novel properties:**
- assuredness
- lack of doubt

## Examples
- The Hubble Space Telescope's gyroscopes failed repeatedly, but servicing missions restored its precise pointing for decades. *(engineering)*
- In 2023, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates to 5.25% aiming to exactly balance inflation and employment. *(economics)*
- The Voyager 1 probe used error-correcting codes to transmit data accurately across 15 billion miles of space. *(computing)*

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-sure.confidence.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*