Tom Samuels, manager of the Palantir Fund in Houston, said he was not seeing enough of an improvement in economic numbers to justify confidence in the recovery.
No England or Great Britain team has beaten Australia since that famous triumph for Brian Noble's Lions in Sydney in the Tri-Nations of 2006, and there was little in England's opening performance against Samoa to justify confidence, as opposed to optimism, that this bunch have the ability to stun the Kangaroos.
His basic concern is analogous to Hume's worries about traditional principles of induction that setting one's credences equal to the chances is rational only if one is already convinced that the high objective probability of PP leading to epistemic success justifies confidence in the PP, i.e., is justified only if one already accepts the PP.
Nor should they prohibit things we might do inadvertently, like bumping into a statue of the emperor, or involuntarily, like doubting the wisdom of one of his decrees; if such actions were crimes, no amount of effort to abide by the laws of our country would justify confidence that we would succeed, and therefore we could never feel safe from criminal prosecution.
Not only did he have an infinite (and justified) self-confidence but he had a vision that could only be regarded as "spiritual".
Appier hasn't looked like a 15-game winner, Trachsel has pitched like the loser he was the previous two years, and Glendon Rusch, with his split-personality home-and-road pitching, isn't justifying the confidence the Mets had in him based on his performance last year.
"Justified confidence," Cluess called it.
And yesterday Dixon justified the confidence that Accorsi, Fassel and Sunderland had in him as well as the confidence he had in himself.
"I am completely unembarrassed about that, because they were right, and I hope that I have justified their confidence in me.
This is the first step in a series of changes which will fully justify the confidence and support which has kept this process going".
