Sentence examples for ordinary belief from inspiring English sources

They denigrate ordinary belief as a set of benighted misconceptions, while, out of the other side of their mouth, they can praise ordinary belief as a set of non-propositional practices.

Even ordinary belief — the kind that seeks epiphanies between deadlines, and struggles even with the meager self-discipline required to get through Lent — depends on extraordinary examples, whether they're embedded in our communities or cloistered in the great silence of a monastery.

And since these are ordinary belief ascriptions, it follows that, in general, the 'that'-clauses that appear in ordinary belief ascriptions do not refer to sentence tokens.

This suggests that nearly any ordinary belief is called into question by skeptical theism.

The second is an ordinary belief about these very normative standards: that they require telling the truth to the judge.

And what is wrong with insisting on speaking strictly, or wrong with antecedently preferring to support theories that disrupt and challenge rather than vindicate ordinary belief systems?

No peace talks are scheduled, and even if they were they would need to reach more deeply into ordinary beliefs than negotiators can usually manage.

Concerning the first, it is claimed (Williamson 2000: 253) that an utterance of (35) is as odd as ordinary belief-related Moorean sentences such as (24) above.

The central thought is this: On the one hand, the skeptic is often conceived as grounding her doubts on the fallibility of our ordinary belief-forming processes, such as perception and memory.

The urbane skeptic suspends on scientific matters, but holds ordinary beliefs.

Such accounts are meant to show that, although the ordinary beliefs are mistaken, the mistakes can be explained or excused.