Some articles on beliefs, belief:
... modern Malta has been described as a "rich pattern of traditions, beliefs and practices," which is the result of "a long process of adaptation, assimilation and cross fertilization of beliefs and usages ... centuries and the fact that Malta shares the religious beliefs, traditions and ceremonies of its Sicilian and Southern European neighbors ...
... comparison theory, which suggests that we have a drive to validate our beliefs we typically do this through simple observation ... when something is ambiguous), we validate our beliefs through evaluation of the beliefs of others ... Accepting the beliefs of others as reality is known as informational influence ...
... Recent work has focused on beliefs about voices in addition to the voices themselves ... psychological theories for understanding the experience of hearing voices and the beliefs associated with them ... be linked to voice characteristics but also social and interpersonal beliefs based on life experience ...
... The MindSpring Core Values and Beliefs were known to the employees as the CV B's ... to start, but the list of core values and beliefs would rule whatever it was ...
... Theories of justification Foundationalism – Self-evident basic beliefs justify other non-basic beliefs ... Coherentism – Beliefs are justified if they cohere with other beliefs a person holds, each belief is justified if it coheres with the overall ... – The believer must be able to justify a belief through internal knowledge ...
Famous quotes containing the word beliefs:
“If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behavior of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by our standards, we have no reason to count that creature as rational, as having beliefs, or as saying anything.”
—Donald Davidson (b. 1917)
“Our inherent human charity and our religious beliefs will be taxed to the limit. No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity of an education, a job, or simple justice.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
“The essence of belief is the establishment of a habit; and different beliefs are distinguished by the different modes of action to which they give rise.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)