It has to be based on belief.
We describe the transferable belief model, a model for representing quantified beliefs based on belief functions.
A key component of much current research in behavioral ecology, cognitive science, and economics is a model of the mind at least partly based on beliefs and desires.
These include parents' tendency to delay vaccination based on beliefs that their teens were not currently at risk for acquiring HPV and clinician reluctance to engage ambivalent parents about their concerns.
At the same time, much criticism has been voiced about such reforms jeopardising the fundamental humanist traditions in teaching, based on beliefs about non-instrumental values of education.
Still, there are significant differences based on beliefs and practices.
Lawyers for the UK government, led by Clare Montgomery QC, had argued that if officers were liable to prosecution when their use of force was legitimate and based on honest beliefs at the time, there could be a "chilling effect" on the willingness of officers to carry out essential armed duties.
Wicca is based on a belief of the Goddess at the center of all life and creation.
You only have to look to the current head of Ofsted for the overarching attitude based on the belief that self-esteem being at an all-time low being an indication that the right approach is being taken.
His conviction that the 2008 cycle would comfortably return Mario and Lincoln Diaz-Balart to Congress and help put Florida's electoral votes in John McCain's column was, in part at least, based on his belief that "it's older people who vote".
