Indexical beliefs are, roughly speaking, beliefs that agents are disposed to express by uttering sentences that contain indexicals.
Thus, the meaning of ritual is often looked for in the verbal, spoken, or belief system that is taken as its semantic correlate.
Hence she is inclined to think 'it is a matter of terminological choice whether we want to speak of belief here or not' (ibid).
We may still find it convenient to speak of "belief" in informal contexts, if scientific usage is cumbersome, much as we still speak of "the sun going down", but if the concept of belief does not map onto the categories described by a mature scientific understanding of the mind, then, literally speaking, no one believes anything.
In one way of speaking, the belief just is the fact or proposition represented, or the particular stored token of that fact or proposition; in another way of speaking, the more standard in philosophical discussion, the belief is the state of having such a fact or representation stored.
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She spoke of her belief that outlaw motorcycle gangs were indeed criminal organisations.
In a 2010 interview with WEWS-TV, Nancy Ruiz spoke about her belief that her daughter was still alive and that someone must know something about her disappearance and whereabouts.
On Thursday, in his own speech to the Asian congress, bin Hammam spoke of his belief that "the world has yet to feel the vibration of Asian football" and that "we must push our limits and challenge the status quo".
He spoke of his belief in Borukhova's truthfulness — he did not doubt her accounts of Daniel Malakov's abusiveness — and of the progress he felt that he had been making with the child in overcoming her fear of her father.
