Finally, some ethicists of belief seek to argue that there are some obligations on direct belief-formation while also absorbing the putative empirical datum that much of it is not under the control of the will (see Feldman and Conee 1985; Feldman 2000; Adler 2005, Hieronymi 2006 and 2008).
Chalmers writes that "direct phenomenal beliefs" about our experiences are "partly constituted by an underlying phenomenal quality", in that the two will be tightly coupled across "a wide range of nearby conceptually possible cases" (2003, 235).
A special policy focus should be on programs in schools to talk about youth and (sexual) relationship building in order to promote safer sex, directed toward beliefs and attitudes.
According to Williams (2002: 74), in an assertion, the speaker either gives a direct expression of belief, or he intends the addressee to "take it" that he has the belief (cf. Owens 2006).
Thus, most attempts to improve our understanding of the links between beliefs about climate change and behavioral and policy responses have used indirect rather than direct measures of belief and attribution.
Strict elders enforce norms that conceive of "speech" solely as a direct statement of belief and intent.
Day Lafferty says: "Fundraising has changed beyond belief – direct response TV, government contracts – there are so many things that require very sophisticated skills.
Apart from wearing its irrationality on its sleeve, fideism is vulnerable to psychological objections about the lack of direct control over belief.
By contrast, Bernard Williams (2002: 74) has claimed that a sincere assertion is simply the direct expression of belief, in a more primitive way.
It explains how concepts, which in turn are the direct objects of belief and knowledge, are assembled into mental sentences describing the world (for the details, see Panaccio 2004).
