Belief Attributions
"Belief attributions" are uses of sentences of the form N believes that s (where N is a noun phrase, s a sentence). Their semantic and logical properties have been de...
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Belief
Beliefs are a species of propositional attitude distinguished by their having the mind-to-world direction of fit.
Propositional attitudes are psychological states characterized by a psychologic...
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Knowledge, the Priority Of
One fairly specific understanding of the priority of knowledge is the idea that instead of trying to explain knowledge in terms of belief plus truth, justification, and some...
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THE EFFECTS OF BELIEFS
Beliefs affect the capacity to reason logically and the capacity to recognize valid arguments. There are many types of beliefs such as faith, religious belief, superstition, tr...
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To further investigate this topic we first have to define what exactly belief is, which the dictionary (dictionary.com) defines it as "Mental acceptance and conviction in the truth, actuality, or val...
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Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?"The article, to be p...
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Quotations from Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, assassinated Thursday in Rawalpindi."I told him on my oath in his death cell, I would carry on his work." — Recalling a visit to he...
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Ever whacked your thumb with a hammer, or wrenched your back after lifting a heavy box, and blamed the full moon? It's a popular notion, but there's no cosmic connection, Austrian government resear...
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Kelvin Sampson preached playing smart and doing things the right way with maximum effort at all times, benching anyone who couldn't oblige. His players bought into his no-nonsense system after hear...
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BOSTON (Reuters) - A Christian biologist is suing
the prestigious Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in
Massachusetts, claiming he was fired for refusing to accept
evolution, lawyers involved in...
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Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts. And nearly one out of four, 23 percent, say they've actually seen a ghost or felt its presence, finds...
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An Egyptian who fears he will be tortured for his Christian beliefs cannot be deported just to further U.S. diplomatic goals without full court review, a U.S. judge determined.Sameh Khouzam, 38, cr...
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Belief Attributions
The Effects of Beliefs
Huckabee questions Mormons' belief
