By generating belief and plausibility measures it also communicates the reliability of the diagnosis, and completeness of information.
The two-step regimen of accepting a proposition and then acting upon it is a common way of generating belief in that proposition.
As a result, reason found itself in the strange situation of spontaneously generating belief that we have knowledge of transcendent realities, while at the same time having to recognize that any such knowledge is illusionary.
The multi-actor based decision-making is modelled by generating beliefs and preferences of actors about the location of and relation between spatial objects.
That may have generated belief, sparked interest, and increased the Caribbean focus on limited-overs cricket as the region's best chance of success.
Given the distinction between (A) having reason to think a certain proposition is true, and (B) having reason to induce belief in that proposition, taking steps to generate belief in a certain proposition may be the rational thing to do, even if that proposition lacks sufficient evidential support.
When that anger is coupled with access to weapons and a media generated belief that others are threatening your American lifestyle, we have cases like the Sikh Shooting... and the Trayvon Martin case.
The method was tested by carrying out an experimental role play to validate individual agent tasks, focusing on the ability of agents to generate beliefs and preferences about their environment.
The faculties of perception, memory, testimony, introspection, reasoning, and so on, typically generate beliefs on the basis of sufficient evidence, and we usually regard these faculties as malfunctioning, maladjusted, or misused when they generate beliefs in other ways.
In the individual case, premise beliefs generate beliefs in a conclusion, and the J-status of the conclusion belief depends on the J-statuses of the premise beliefs.
Carruthers maintains that "Innate beliefs will count as known provided that the process through which they come to be innate is a reliable one (provided, that is, that the process tends to generate beliefs that are true)" (1992, p. 77).
