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Belief meaning
Mental acceptance of a claim as true. | Faith or trust in the reality of something; often based upon one's own reasoning, trust in a claim, desire of actuality, and/or evidence considered. | Something believed.
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They’ve always had a big belief in me and if you’ve got the belief of the board upstairs in what you’re doing then it gives you more belief as well.
A broadly reliabilist theory of justified belief can be stated as follows: One has a justified belief that p if, and only if, the belief is the result of a reliable process.
Cognitive biases explain religious belief, paranormal belief, and belief in life's purpose.
Foundationalism is the belief that a chain of justification begins with a belief that is justified, but which is not justified by another belief.
In particular, the belief that heaven is a reward for good behavior is a common folk belief in Christian societies, even among members of churches which reject that belief.
My dear friend and sister: Your belief that I am a Universalist is as correct as your greater belief that you are one yourself, a belief in which all who are privileged to possess it rejoice.
Belief beneficiaries should pay taxes on earnings and different distributions that they obtain from the belief.
Not just a static belief, but an active belief.
The trustor, having transferred property into the belief, successfully removes all of their rights of possession of the property and the belief upon creation of its irrevocable standing.
Where the Company expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to future events or results, such expectation or belief is expressed in good faith and believed to have a reasonable basis.
Belief in nation has been lost in belief in faction and self-interest.
For example, belief in the supremacy of the value of human life over all other considerations reflects belief in the assertion that the hostages must be released at any cost.
There is also a belief that we're not dealing with a finished product in Núñez either, so getting rid of him now would be counterproductive and go against the belief within Liverpool that he can develop into something even more special.
The tour was a validation for that generation’s belief in Dylan, and for Dylan and The Band’s belief in themselves.
Like Baldwin, King struggled with America’s commitment to the belief that white people mattered more, and to the lie that made that belief palatable.
Hence the question of the Constitution giving us “the right to have a certain amount of irrationality and blind belief” does not arise if such a belief, irrational or logical, falls afoul of the aforementioned clause.
Modern psychologists adapted his name to describe people who possess an unshakable belief in their own status and importance, an insatiable craving for adoration, and a belief that rules do not apply to them.
Again, this cannot be taken to mean that belief in determinism is to blame; these are the results we would expect from increasing people's belief in fatalism.
Although the words faith and belief are sometimes erroneously conflated and used as synonyms, faith properly refers to a particular type (or subset) of belief, as defined above.
Among the most ancient ideas are spiritualization and personification of all natural phenomena, belief in an upper, middle, and lower world, belief in the soul (omi) and certain totemistic concepts.