Peter Duval Smith, in the Financial Times, was in two minds about the book, believing on the one hand that "the background is excellent .
Susan Sontag, on the other hand, fought her death to the end, believing on some deep irrational level she would be the one exception to mortality.
Yet, he would not call it "Symphony No. 9," believing, on the analogy of Beethoven and Bruckner, that a ninth symphony must be its composer's last.
The scene comes from "The Girlfriends" (1955), a film by Michelangelo Antonioni, and it is worth revisiting, because anyone who knew little of the director — who perhaps learned of him only when he died, on July 30th, at ninety-four — could be forgiven for believing, on the strength of the obituaries, that here was a merchant of the miserable.
No belief is without effect, he claims, and believing on insufficient evidence even with respect to something apparently insignificant is likely to lead to the lowering of epistemic standards in other more important situations.
In response, it might be claimed that the source of the prudential value of always believing on sufficient evidence is that it tends to result in our having knowledge, and that this is what's really prudentially valuable.
Carlisle United manager Greg Abbott believes on-loan Newcastle United full-back James Tavernier has already had a positive impact at Brunton Park.
We believe, on the one hand, that the individual must save himself or herself.
People have firm believes on if one should clean a crab (remove the shell and lungs) before being cooked.
Each one wishes to be believed on the basis of its own authority and threatens unbelievers.
I make believe on a professional basis.
