Sentence examples for evidence for believing from inspiring English sources

We used to believe so, and there was some evidence for believing it.

THE NEWS The F.B.I. detailed its scientific evidence for believing that Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, a bioweapons scientist who killed himself in July, was responsible for the anthrax-laced letters that caused five deaths in 2001.

So far, though, there is no evidence for believing this (see article).Moreover, there is a strong countervailing argument: the ease with which dictators have escaped any consequences for their crimes has encouraged more to seize power and to commit further barbarities.

If you feel a throbbing pain in your head, you have evidence for believing that you have a headache.

The more general debate is about whether intuitions provide evidence for believing or rejecting certain theories, whereas the intuitionist needs intuitions to justify beliefs with the same content.

For example, if the coffee in your cup tastes sweet to you, then you have evidence for believing that the coffee is sweet.

Now, if the evidence I had for believing that the animals are zebras isn't adequate to deny or neutralize the claim that the very animals in front of me are cleverly disguised mules, it is certainly not adequate for denying or neutralizing the claim that there are many cleverly disguised mules within my visual field.

For example, suppose I have adequate evidence for the claim that Anne has two brothers, then it would seem that the very same evidence would be adequate for believing that Anne has at least one brother.

And according to a study by two finance professors, Josef Lakonishok of the University of Illinois and Seymour Smidt of Cornell, the evidence is quite weak for believing that any given month has a statistically significant probability of showing either gains or losses more than half the time.

In these circumstances, evidence E′ defeats the justification for believing H that would be afforded by E in its absence.

Suppose evidence e gives you justification for believing hypothesis or proposition p and you know that p entails another proposition q that you have not directly checked.