One motivation for such a view might be that one may justifiably believe things on the basis of reasons one has forgotten (Goldman 2001, pp. 214 216).
DEMAND agreement on a divorce settlement before you marry, and the world may believe many things of you: that you are prudent, or cynical, or just a bit mean.
Human rights activists believe things may initially get worse, though the Network for North Korean Democracy and Human Rights says the death of Kim Jong-il provides "a new chance for hope for the North Korean people".
How can you look at charts like this and not believe things may not be as good as we are being told?
The focus for many scholars now is on keeping individuals away from violent behaviour, regardless of whether they continue to believe things we may find repulsive".
SOME skeptics may believe a thing only when they see it in writing, but is the writing more believable when it is seen on paper rather than on a computer screen?
"In the past I may have believed things, but now I'm not sure about what I'm told, so I must observe and judge," said Dr. Gao Yaojie, a retired gynecologist who earned international praise and the enmity of local officials by creating her own H.I.V.-education program in Henan.
We may panic, but we also seem to be programmed to want to believe things will be better.
"I believe things can change.
