Sentence examples for credence it from inspiring English sources

The Rockefeller Center "Puppy" gives this statement the fullest credence it may ever have.

On the plus side, if journalism initially gave Wakefield much too much credence, it was also by the work of journalists that the extent of the research's failings were brought to public attention.

Even if the correct response to disagreement about p in such cases is the suspension of belief (or a reduction of credence), it won't follow that beliefs in propositions about which no known disagreement exists are undermined.

Suppose that your credence function is non-probabilistic, but it matches the evidence that you have: that is, the credence it assigns to a proposition matches the extent to which your evidence supports that proposition.

And we say that a credence function is hypothetically calibrated if the credence it assigns to a proposition matches the limiting relative frequency with which propositions of that kind would be true were there more propositions of that kind.

We say that a credence function is actually calibrated at a particular possible world if the credence it assigns to a proposition matches the relative frequency with which propositions of that kind are true at that world.

For instance, perhaps it is a virtue of a credence function if the credences it assigns cohere with one another in a particular way, and a vice if they do not.

For example, Dunn (2015) and Tang (forthcoming) object that if the Brier score is used, a credence-forming process that only outputs mid-level credences (say, a credence of.6) will never qualify as highly reliable; hence the credences it produces will never count as highly justified.

Then you might think that your credences match your evidence, because you have evidence only about it landing heads and your credence that it will land heads equals the known chance that it will land heads.

But this novel is so distant and cold and unlikely that it's impossible to give any credence to it.

In an era in which intolerance is policed more than anything else, self-care of any sort is granted tremendous credence: if it makes you feel better, we will honor it.