The phrase "acceptable belief" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing beliefs or opinions that are considered reasonable or permissible within a certain context or framework.
Example: "In our discussion about ethics, we must consider what constitutes an acceptable belief in our society."
Alternatives: "reasonable belief" or "valid belief".
Another important precursor to contemporary research on implicit bias is Modern Racism Theory (McConahay et al. 1981; McConahay 1982), which argues that "old fashioned" explicit racism has been channeled into more socially acceptable beliefs about public policy, such as affirmative action and desegregation programs.
But the bottom line is that the party I was once a proud and long member of has left me as its presidential candidate articulates beliefs beyond the pale of acceptable political belief and does nothing to denounce what just a year ago was unacceptable to the party.
Regarding Purgatory, de Silva states in this paper that the Hindu/Buddhist view, where Ultimate Reality is reached through a process of purification through liberation from self and elevation to stages of spiritual development, is more acceptable than the belief in a single life on earth and an everlasting hell or heaven after death.
Yet his central argument in The End of Faith is sound: religion is the only area of human knowledge in which it is still acceptable to hold beliefs dating from antiquity and a modern society should subject those beliefs to the same principles that govern scientific, medical or geographical inquiry - particularly if they are inherently hostile to those with different ideas.
His life was marked for ever by his youthful decision to renounce Catholicism for a more politically acceptable set of beliefs.
Since (3) violating the axioms leaves the bettor open to being Dutch Booked (that is, being on the losing side of the Dutch Book) because her degrees of belief make acceptable bets leading to a sure loss, it is concluded that (4) one ought to satisfy the probability axioms (i.e. that probabilism is true).
With the exception of image vividness, Pearson correlations of the association between the ratings before and after the control session in this study were moderate to strong, suggesting acceptable retest reliability: encapsulated belief (r = 0.60, p < 0.05), memory distress (r = 0.75, p = 0.01), image distress (r = 0.71, p < 0.01), vividness (r = 0.13, p < 0.71), and frequency (r = 0.92, p < 0.01).
The method succeeds and we achieve reflective equilibrium when we arrive at an acceptable coherence among these beliefs.
In this sense, our beliefs about acceptable rules of inference are constrained by the "evidence" provided by what we believe to be good or correct examples or instances of inferential reasoning.
