This assumption might rest on the idea that any belief M yields is, at best, accidentally correct, if in any circumstances M yields a false or an accidentally correct belief (Luper 1987b,c).
For 70 years, the US and Britain have underwritten the open global trading system, partly because of a stubborn and correct belief in the merits of free trade, partly out of self-interest as beneficiaries of globalisation and partly because, strategically, it spreads democracy, peace and capitalism.
They then increase the number of annotations if the target performance could not be reached, based on the vague but generally correct belief that performance will improve with a larger sample size.
"Pryor doesn't tell jokes," she wrote, "he tells all, in the correct belief that without punch lines, humor has more punch.
I read the walk-throughs so that I would not embarrass myself when invited to play Nintendo by friends with cooler parents, or when a babysitter snuck a Nintendo console into the house under my parents' noses, swearing my brother and I to secrecy, in the (correct) belief that the presence of the games would make her job much easier.
If the inquirer follows the principle of hanging on to her conjecture until the evidence is logically inconsistent with the conjecture, she will never abandon her false belief that all but finitely many ravens are white, much less arrive at the correct belief that all but finitely many ravens are black.
Call this the Roman Church/Protestant idea of spirituality as "correct" belief.
The root of the Protestant commitment to salvation through correct belief lies in the retributive and juridical "rationalistic" history of the Roman Catholic Church from which all Protestant denominations evolved.
Populism is rooted in the (often correct) belief that insiders rig markets against the public, often harnessed to the (usually unjustified) faith that a demagogic leader adept at expressing popular resentments can be counted on to defend the people from this elite rigging of the economy.
