Sentence examples for believing the truth from inspiring English sources
Now, since of course, I believe the views I believe — and I hope at the end of the semester you'll agree with me, because I think they're true and I hope you'll end up believing the truth [laughter].
You know only if you deserve credit for believing the truth.
This credal state is the state of believing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about Q.
To put the same point in terms of evidence: plausibly, much if not all of the value of respecting one's evidence consists in the putative link between doing so and believing the truth.
Sosa (2007, 95) responds that Morris still deserves "partial credit," even though his success in believing the truth is primarily attributable to a "socially seated competence" embodied in the people involved in the testimonial chain.
This solves "Plato's puzzle"—i.e. the Meno problem Hyman argues, because we care not only about believing the truth and acting successfully, but also "about our reasons, and in particular, we want our reasons to be facts," in which case "we are bound to regard knowledge as a better guide to acting the right way than mere true belief" (Hyman 2010: 412 13).
