But well before Anselm, Christians maintained that because people have been endowed with reason, they have an urge to express their experience of faith intellectually, to translate the contents of faith into concepts, and to formulate beliefs in a systematic understanding of the correlation between God, humankind, and creation.
This demonstrates how knowledge about tamoxifen is constructed within the family history of high-risk women, and how experiences of friends and close relatives help to formulate beliefs (Kenen et al, 2003) surrounding the efficacy and side-effect profile of tamoxifen.
They formulate our beliefs and it's our belief systems that become the lens through which we interpret the world.
According to the Bayesian approach we adopted, it is necessary to formulate our beliefs about each of the model parameters, before any data produced by the models have been observed, as probability distributions.
Design is about formulating "hypotheses or beliefs about the relationship between technology and cognition/collaboration", making them tangible in whatever form, and then monitoring and steering the way the real world adapts to these hypotheses (Woods & Dekker 2000).
"Nobody who does anything in drug rehabilitation or in literacy programs has to formulate that belief in order to go through the program".
As James Baldwin wrote in 1963, "The Christian church... encouraged, if it did not formulate, the belief that conquest... was proof of the favor of God.
Moran testified that he formulated his belief about "insuring" versus "pirating" when talking with various colleagues in the business and from reading trade publications.
Seneca, a Roman Stoic philosopher, formulates the belief in providence in one of his dialogues as follows: humans should believe "that providence rules the world and that God cares for us".
The Christian church itself — again, as distinguished from some of its ministers — sanctified and rejoiced in the conquests of the flag, and encouraged, if it did not formulate, the belief that conquest, with the resulting relative well-being of the Western populations, was proof of the favor of God.
