The phrase "fixed belief" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a belief or conviction that a person holds firmly and is not easily changed. Example: Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the cult leader's followers maintained their fixed belief in his divine powers.
If there is a fixed belief, it requires a wall to protect that fixed belief and weapons to propagate that fixed belief.
For this reason, we naturally attribute to the subject in the high standards case either less confident belief or confident belief along with a state of evidence assessment that precedes fixed belief (2008, 289).
We must throw out every fixed belief about what the body can and cannot do.
That fixed belief becomes paramount to protect at all costs, at the cost of others, the cost of even their own lives and families.
And as such, within each of us, he encounters a different personality, a different "Mind," including different experiences -- fears, anxieties and pleasures, different attributes and restrictions, different egos, as well as infinite different fixed belief systems, both real and invented, true and false.
Fixed belief and prejudice go hand in hand.
"They have fixed beliefs like you know when you're married, you're a woman you have to obey your husband, that's it.
Perry seems to believe that sticking to his beliefs and his words is a test of character that will be rewarded — particularly against Romney, who is widely seen as having no fixed beliefs.
And no, that's not a caricature: Last year the Texas G.O.P. explicitly condemned efforts to teach "critical thinking skills," because, it said, such efforts "have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority".
One side believes, at least in principle, in letting its policy views be shaped by facts; the other believes in suppressing the facts if they contradict its fixed beliefs.
And neither Mr Romney nor Mr Paul is an obvious Obama-slayer.Mr Romney, a thoughtful self-made multi-millionaire, has been promoting a new book, "No Apology", designed to counter the reputation he earned in his last campaign of having no fixed beliefs.
