Even if there are particular cases in which it is imprudent to follow one's evidence, the general rule that one should believe on the basis of, and in proportion to, sufficient evidence in one's possession produces the best distribution of prudential outcomes overall.
This is an interesting and novel approach, though it must meet the objection that to believe a conclusion obtained on this basis, one should believe all the premisses equally; and so an argument of the more common form, appealing to all the premisses without fragmenting them, should be eventually forthcoming.
One further case is to be heard on September 5. Mr Straw told the Commons on February 10 that no one should believe that they would benefit from hijacking and said he wanted to see "removed from this country all those on the plane as soon as practicable".
Constructive empiricism has the look of an epistemological view about what one should believe — namely, that one should be agnostic about the claims about unobservables that our scientific theories make.
"Based on their past dereliction of duty, no one should believe anything DOJ says until they see actual, concrete and repeated prosecution of supervisors and executives at Wall Street's biggest, wealthiest and most politically connected too-big-to-fail banks".
As it was shown at a conference organized by the Jean Jaurès Foundation titled "Four more years," that I had the pleasure to host at the 4th district hall on October 20, Obama embodies the reasons why one should believe in political will and rhetoric.
If a conditional has truth conditions, one should believe it to the extent that one thinks it is probably true.
A simple thesis, known as the Lockean thesis, says that one should believe a proposition A just in case one's degree of belief for A is sufficiently high ('should' takes wide scope over 'just in case').
