Sentence examples for ascribe belief from inspiring English sources

So in most cases where we ascribe belief, there is a fact of the matter which makes the ascription true or false.

From this linguistic phenomenology Ryle argued that Cartesian mind-body dualism involves a category mistake (the logic or grammar of mental verbs — "believe", "see", etc. — does not mean that we ascribe belief, sensation, etc., to "the ghost in the machine").

It's pretty clear that there are lots of machines that it doesn't seem natural to ascribe beliefs or desires or goals or reasoning to.

Of course, it is true that if we simply insist no physical object could really have beliefs or desires, then it will follow that when we are tempted to ascribe beliefs and desires to my chess-playing computer, we're falling into an illusion.

Moreover, children appear to ascribe beliefs to themselves in the same way they ascribe beliefs to others.

In other contexts, the liberal substitution of co-referential terms or phrases seems permissible in ascribing belief.

But it is the third which ascribes belief in the negation of the claim that murder is wrong, so we have not yet got our explanation.(Unwin 1999, 2001; Hale 2002; Dreier 2006; Schroeder 2008b, 2008c).

All one needs to construct a Richard-style case is for the ascribers to be ignorant of the identities of the agents they are ascribing beliefs to.

But Socrates explicitly ascribes beliefs, emotions, and desires to each part of the soul.

To build up to the objection, consider cases in which a speaker is ascribing beliefs to different agents.

In ascribing beliefs to others, for instance, we employ a principle of charity that counsels us to make these believers as rational as possible.