He added his name to a letter from writers asserting a belief "in the possibilities of human rehabilitation and transformation".
(1) The most conspicuous sign is a remarkable increase in the frequency and intensity with which people engage in a specific kind of behaviour or assert a belief.
But these last years, devoted to asserting a belief formulated when Asch visited Palestine in 1906 that Christianity is essentially a Jewish phenomenon, "one culture and civilization"—were tragic years.
It is one thing for a prosecutor to publicly condemn a defendant's actions and assert a belief that he did what he is charged with doing after a trial and conviction, but another to do so before he is indicted by a grand jury.
"A recipient cannot avow the belief dictated" by the government, he wrote, "and then turn around and assert a contrary belief, or claim neutrality, when participating in activities on its own time and dime".
The film's mysteries are derived from Scott and co's research into myth and ancient civilisations, and he asserts a genuine belief in their possibilities.
But as Chief Justice Roberts explained, this condition is coercive because a recipient has to take an affirmative position and is not allowed to get funds "and then turn around and assert a contrary belief, or claim neutrality, when participating in activities on its own time and dime".
For example, accepting a doxastic or a causal-doxastic theory of the basing relation would appear to be at odds with the fundamental intuition behind causal theories of justification (e.g., reliabilism), which assert that a belief is justified merely by being caused in an appropriate way.
Thus, while, or even because Hook asserted his belief in a version of Marxism as compatible with pragmatism as an experimental hypothesis, the various theses of Marxist dialectical materialism were subjected to an intensely probing and extremely skeptical criticism in his writings.
In Alito's now famous 1985 application for a promotion at the Justice Department, where he asserted his belief that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," he also briefly addressed voting rights.
