Sentence examples for stable belief from inspiring English sources

We discuss the connection between simplicity and stable belief in the next section.

One version of epistemic conservatism, as we saw above, holds that inquiry should seek stable belief.

In such cases there is a trade-off between the goals of achieving stable belief, on the one hand, and quickly settling on a true belief on the other [Schulte 1999a].

The Ockham theorem shows a remarkable reversal from the long-standing objection that long-run reliability imposes too few constraints on short-run conjectures: If we add to long-run convergence to the truth the goal of achieving stable belief, then in fact there is a unique inductive method that achieves this goal in a given empirical problem.

Thus the goal of stable belief places strong constraints on what a method may conjecture in the short run for this problem: on observing only black ravens, the options are "all ravens are black" or "no opinion yet", but not "there is a nonblack raven".

Rotter (1967, 1971, 1980) argues that trust is a stable belief based on individuals' extrapolations from their early life-experiences.

Children in general lack certain cognitive abilities to acquire and to process information in an ordered fashion, to form consistent and stable beliefs, to appreciate the significance of options and their consequences.

Young patients with stable favorable dental beliefs had better clinical status and better self-rated oral health than those with less stable beliefs.

Young people with stable favorable dental beliefs from adolescence through adulthood have better clinical status and better self-rated oral health than those with less stable beliefs [ 13].

So far, we have argued that Ashlyn's epistemological views about the role of mathematics in biology are context-dependent, not stable "beliefs".

With the term 'value' , we refer to stable beliefs about desirable states or conducts of behaviors, which serve as normative standards to assess and justify actions [ 22, 23].