Sentence examples for render belief from inspiring English sources

That is to say, one might grant, at least for the sake of argument, that there are facts about evil that, other things being equal, render belief in God unreasonable, but then argue that when those considerations are embedded within one's total epistemic situation, belief in the existence of God can be seen to be reasonable, all things considered.

A 1986 Supreme Court decision, Malley v. Briggs, said police officers should be denied immunity from such lawsuits "only where the warrant application is so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence unreasonable".

Under Supreme Court precedent, Millender's lawsuit can only proceed if Messerschmidt's search warrant was "so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence unreasonable".

Far from conflicting with or even being orthogonal to the search for truth and our efforts to render our beliefs maximally responsive to the evidence, Quine insists, revising our beliefs in accordance with such pragmatic principles "at bottom, is what evidence is" (1955, 251).

Compensating for the unlucky interference, a lucky circumstance (Brown's coincidental presence in Barcelona) renders the belief true after all, similar to the way in which the second gust of wind returns the archer's arrow back onto the proper path towards the target.

He goes at Craig, "Can you point to anything that [Kagan] has said or written," that would render he beliefs on key Constitutional issues scrutable?

In other words, the risk sensitive behaviour can also be interpreted in terms of the probability of extreme events that render the beliefs sub Gaussian; assuming the homeostatic deviation is interpreted as a log probability.

As McCourt sharply observes, Stonewall, "like the Civil War in the history of the Republic, provided the dividing line and break in the history of queer experience, and which, like all traumatic occurrences, rendered the beliefs and assumptions of the preceding generation naïve, complacent and obsolete in the eyes of their successors".

This second objection is that willfully engaging in self-deception renders pragmatic belief-formation morally problematic and rationally suspect, since willfully engaging in self-deception is the deliberate worsening of one's epistemic situation.

Thus, even if I am initially justified in believing that your name is Fritz on the basis of your testimony to that effect, the subsequent acquisition of evidence which suggests that you are a pathological liar tends to render this same belief unjustified.

She ruled that the original 1994 contempt order was valid, but that Mr. Chadwick's refusal to comply across 80 months and counting "renders unreasonable the belief that continued incarceration will have a coercive effect," as intended under civil law.