The basic error to which philosophical systematizers are prone, he argues, is assuming that the criteria for evaluating a belief in one context are equally appropriate in other contexts.
One might take a causal theory of the basing relation to explain how one has taken into account the reasons one possesses when forming or evaluating a belief, regardless of whether the reason actually contributes to the justification of the belief.
Still, according to de Botton, if you want to leave the herd, it is easy enough: "Anyone with a curious and well-ordered mind who seeks to evaluate a common-sense belief can start a conversation with a friend in a city street and, by following a Socratic method, may arrive at one or two groundbreaking ideas in under half an hour".
In this study, we undertook a qualitative process evaluation to evaluate carers' beliefs about the usefulness of a problem-solving guided self-help manual for primary carers of young people with FEP.
The priming results are inconsistent with the idea that individuals evaluate their belief in a conditional by adding the antecedent to their beliefs and assessing whether the consequent does or does not occur, as probabilistic theories propose, that is, that they think about A and B and A and not-B (Evans & Over, 2004; Over et al., 2007, see also Oaksford & Chater, 2007).
In this case, we have to invite some experts to evaluate the belief degree that a possible event occurs.
A survey conducted expressly to evaluate practitioners' beliefs concerning a set of clinical questions may support a claim of clinical equipoise for a particular trial.
OBQ-44 is a self-reporting questionnaire including 44 items to evaluate the belief domains associated with OCD.
It seems that to invite some relevant experts to evaluate their belief degree that each event will happen makes sense.
In MANET, trust management is applied to evaluate the belief level of information and nodes, to detect intrusions and to provide security services including key management, authentication, access control and node revocation [10 14].
