His studies, which were now of the nature and existence of God, the immortality of the soul, free will and determinism, the values of life, were empirical, not dialectical; James went directly to religious experience for the nature of God, to psychical research for survival after death, to fields of belief and action for free will and determinism.
The operation of contraction (referring to the removal of knowledge from a knowledge base) has been extensively studied in the research field of belief change, and different postulates (e.g., the AGM postulates with recovery, or relevance) have been proposed, as well as several constructions (e.g., partial meet) that allow the definition of contraction operators satisfying said postulates.
He will meet them, he says, on the field of their belief and challenge the meaning that they give to this or that verse of the Koran.
But it derives its philosophy from theories of open-source culture that flourish in the field of technology, the belief that some greater good can be better achieved through the collaboration of people joined by skills and affinities that transcend institutional allegiances.
In the field of education, the belief that poor students couldn't learn was once prevalent, as Jay Mathews pointed out in a radio show I was on this week.
Ali Khamenei's metamorphosis and the force field of awe around him are confounding things, proof of the power of belief.
Widnes head coach Denis Betts: "We got back in the game and got a bit of belief, but we conceded 10 points with 12 blokes on the field.
Promoting his beliefs in the fields of health, work, the environment and architecture, his network of organisations came to handle £100m a year in funds.
Graves has spent years examining the various philosophies of belief, from those of specific religions to those of psychology and physiology, such as neurotheology, a field that studies the brain on belief. .
Cycles of belief and loss of belief.
Then we investigate the robustness of belief merging, belief revision and belief update operators w.r.t.
