What market participants believe depends not only on the misstatement, but on all other public information that could bear on the question of what future regulatory cost assumptions Exxon used in making its investment decisions.
The Misinformation Age, written for a political era riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you believe depends on who you know.
Who we believe depends on attributions of epistemic authority, which rely on views or attitudes about people's competence, expertise, epistemic responsibility, and trustworthiness.
But notice that they each possess the same structure: what it is reasonable for one to believe depends not only on one's total evidence but also on some further feature F (one's prior probability distribution, paradigm, inductive method).
The Bayesian holds that what it is reasonable for one to believe depends both on the evidence to which one is exposed as well as on one's prior probability distribution.
The fact that misleading evidence is genuine evidence is why beliefs based on misleading evidence can be reasonable, given that what it is reasonable to believe depends on one's evidence.
In the essay, Dürrenmatt describes his aesthetic position as "the traveler's standpoint" and suggests that "what I believe depends on the moment". He offers a hypothetical reader who keeps trying to question him, to pin him down about his beliefs, his political views and so on.
"But what you believe depends on where you sit".
Second, the apparent success of our developmental process, we believe, depended on the identification of potential intervention components already evaluated in randomised trials and on the identification of theoretically based specific BCTs.
The claim that, among a large number of people, some will have a rare trait can easily be believed – depending on the trait in question – by a multitude or by "the wise".
