Sentence examples for capable of belief from inspiring English sources

Sellars agrees with Collingwood that the attitude in question requires no group mind capable of belief or intention over and above the heads of the participating individuals (Sellars 1968: 203).

Only those mentally capable of belief and repentance are baptized (i.e., infant baptism is not practiced because the New Testament has no precedent for it).

Note that D1 is not restricted to the deception of other persons by other persons; it applies to anything that is capable of having beliefs, such as (possibly) chimpanzees, dogs, and infants.

Roughly speaking, an organism's fitness is a measure of how many descendants it will have.[26] As Sober and Wilson note, on this evolutionary account of altruism, an organism can be altruistic even if it does not have a mind capable of having beliefs and desires.

If accessibility internalism is not to be defended by means of something like the general argument presented here, then it is most likely one would have to fall back on the arguments given earlier concerning either actually justifying a belief or being capable of justifying that belief.

More importantly, the argument shows that strong AJI requires that a cognizer with a justified belief be capable of holding justified beliefs of "ever increasing complexity" (Bergmann 2006, p. 16) and this is psychologically unrealistic, maybe even psychologically impossible.

A new principle now holds that corporations are capable of holding religious beliefs and that these beliefs may be impinged only under very limited circumstances.

Almost nothing seems capable of shaking this belief.

Helvétius held that all men are equally capable of learning, a belief that led him to argue against Rousseau's work on education, Émile, and to claim in De L'homme (1772) that education's possibilities for solving human problems were unlimited.

The conclusion of the poem emphasizes that God is the only one that is truly able to exist out of time and have knowledge of all times and places, but humankind is still capable of redemption through belief in Him and His ability to save them from the bounds of the material universe.

Their desperation and cynicism seemed capable of turning these beliefs into self-fulfilling prophecies.