Sentence examples for our credence from inspiring English sources

One who believes as passionately now in the opposite of what was believed before does not invite our credence.

"The question is not whether we can think of something radical or extreme but whether we can discover some sufficient reason for updating our credence function".

Socrates, by contrast, merely claims to have no knowledge, and he regards certain theses as far more worthy of our credence than their denials.

We call the strength or the degree of our belief in a proposition our credence in that proposition.

It was valuable simply for what it did to our credal state — not just our credence in the existence of the Higgs, but our overall credal state.

By contrast, reason can assess a potential opinion as rational or irrational; and by endorsing the opinion, reason will (that is, we will) adopt it, while by contradicting the opinion, reason will destroy our credence in it.

It comes from collecting together a series of accuracy arguments for other principles of rationality that we take to govern our credences.

Since this says something about how our credences ought to be rather than how they in fact are, we call this an epistemic norm.

This is a consequence of a popular doctrine in the epistemology of credences called Probabilism, which says that our credences at a given time ought to satisfy the axioms of the probability calculus (given in detail below).

Moreover, for chance to play its role in the Principal Principle (§1 and Supplement A.1), there must be a unique chance for a given event that is to guide our rational credence, as we have only one credence in a particular proposition stating the occurrence of that event.

While the hypothesis that players are inclined not to hurt others relative to their payoff expectations and the alternative story that players are inclined not to hurt others relative to their behavior expectations are indistinguishable in the simple environments usually studied in lab experiments, they yield different predictions in our richer credence good game.