Sentence examples for believed a claim from inspiring English sources

Asked tonight whether he believed a claim by Osama bin Laden that the Qaeda organization possesses nuclear and chemical weapons, Mr. Putin said such statements were generally made in an attempt to sow panic.

The group ended up writing a paper with what they called a "level of evidence scale" outlining the results they needed before they would believe a claim.

The idea that the first living cell appeared spontaneously once sufficient time had elapsed from a muddy collection of earth and stone under the effect of lightning is something not even a primary school student would believe, a claim devoid of any scientific validity.

Analogously, someone can be justified in believing a claim out of one contrast class, even if the same person is not justified in believing the same claim out of a different contrast class.

The essential thing to understand here is that an attempt to persuade by argument is "an attempt to provide you with reasons for believing a claim, desiring something or doing something" (p. 5).

We can see this with medical stories: people are more likely to believe a pseudoscientific claim if it has a brain scan alongside it.

This allows contextualists to hold that a doctor in a hospital ethics committee is justified in believing a moral claim that a philosophy student with the same evidence would not be justified in believing.

Such Pyrrhonian moral skeptics refuse to take any position either way on whether any believer is justified (without qualification), although they can still talk about whether someone is justified in believing a moral claim out of a specified contrast class.

No artist could believe such a claim all the time, and Herrera does not: he may say, in a 1999 prose poem, "I hate sonnets.

Many lab studies have shown that college students are more likely to believe that a claim is true if they have heard it repeatedly, because past experience has taught them that truths are more likely to be encountered repeatedly than falsehoods.

The experiments showed that people are more likely to believe that a claim is true regardless of evidence when a decorative photograph appears alongside it.