Moreover, the conceptual space between the claim that behavior warrants the attribution of belief and the claim that believing consists in behavior itself is a short and in some ways appealing step.
The question of what the correctness of an assertion consists in was not itself much discussed, although Dummett (1976: 77 8) is careful to distinguish between the case where a speaker makes an assertion on the basis of adequate evidence, and the case where adequate evidence is available, but the speaker makes the assertion without being aware of it.
For Berkeley, all we can know are ideas, and for this reason it made sense to suppose that the world itself consists in ideas.
People from different regions and races are thrown together within each of the six-man canvas tents that serve as accommodation.The training itself consists in part of half-baked military drills and learning dubious skills such as climbing ropes and finding edible roots in the jungle.
While Comte holds that the driving force of human progress is intellectual development, he asserts that progress itself consists in moral improvement.
The method itself consists in using the signals measured on a microphone array to estimate both the structural parameters and the global amplitude of this specific source.
He associates the sense of a name with an appropriately stated clause in a Tarskian truth theory (making it possible to state what one must know to have the sense but not what the sense itself consists in).
The method itself consists in "working…up from life to thought and then down from thought to life again, so that [one] may try to throw more light upon life" (Marcel 1951a, p. 41).
Suggestions as to how to compute nonbasic intrinsic value in terms of basic intrinsic value of course presuppose that there is such a thing as basic intrinsic value, but few have attempted to provide an account of what basic intrinsic value itself consists in.
Indeed, Spinoza states in his Ethics that happiness, specifically, "consists in the human capacity to preserve itself".
