Durandus taught that a philosopher should prefer the conclusions of his own reason to any authority except in articles of faith; the acceptance of truths of faith, on the other hand, did not depend on reason at all.
Such acceptance of truth-telling would be a real political challenge, given Norway's status as "one of America's closest allies" but one of their most respected law firms holds that Snowden cannot be extradited from Norway to the U.S., since Snowden's action is a political act to uphold the US constitution, not a crime.
Our finding of greater signal in VMPFC for belief compared to disbelief was significant in both Christians and nonbelievers for both religious and nonreligious stimuli, supporting a role for this brain region in the acceptance of truth-claims across content domains.
On the contrary, an important component of religious belief is faith, which implies acceptance of a truth regardless of the presence of empirical evidence for or against that truth.
Faith, as the wholehearted acceptance of revealed truth, excludes doubt.
For John, the library's flourishing marks an acceptance of a truth that she and Patrick have always embraced.
Yet for too long, those gatherings were different, not held on Wednesday's wave of political support, national empathy and public acceptance of the truth, but in a chill wind of isolation: disbelieved, ignored or, worse, derided.
From the viewpoint of a Christian of the kind that I take Nicky Morgan to be, confident that deep reflection must lead people to an acceptance of Christian truth, then making children think about their beliefs and assumptions must be the right thing to do.
In the TDF, "beliefs about consequences" refer to an "acceptance of the truth, reality, or validity about the outcomes of a behaviour in a given situation".
