Sentence examples for make belief from inspiring English sources

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make belief

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The abstract quality of making believe

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That — or it may show that the writer realizes just how hard it is to make belief believable.

Half a century ago O'Connor framed the struggle to "make belief believable" as a struggle for the attention of the indifferent reader.

"It becomes more and more difficult in America to make belief believable, but in this the Southern writer has the greatest possible advantage.

But, crucially, this did not mean that his subjects must be monarchs or other historical figures: "The variety and enormity of the world and its people and their infinite possibilities make belief in the ordinariness of ordinary people a blasphemy".

Finally, though we shall not go into it here, it is worth mentioning that when Zalta gets to the semantics of verbs of propositional attitudes, it is not only the propositions considered thus far that are objects of the attitudes and make belief ascriptions true or false.

Avoid hate, anger or despair over that media or those people who are challenging belief in God or even trying to make belief in God seem like a mental disability.

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Maybe we could take this advice to heart – rather than solely employing our intellects to make belief-based judgements about religious and philosophical traditions, we might use our minds and bodies to investigate the prescriptions they make for living well.

Usage of mechanisms to selectively forget past information in order to make beliefs and learning outputs temporary.

Because so many incompatible systems seem coherent, moral skeptics deny that coherence alone is sufficient to make beliefs justified.

Constitutional rights don't make beliefs true, however. .

The capacity to believe in one kind of fantasy makes belief in the other kind easier.

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