Sentence examples for the belief itself from inspiring English sources

It's the fact to which the belief answers, not the belief itself, to which the explanation of such actions naturally refers.

Rather than require a further act of awareness, some acquaintance theorists add constraints to the nature of the foundational belief or the manner in which it is formed so that acquaintance with some mental state or mental feature provides part of the content of the belief itself, and does so in such a way as to guarantee the truth of the belief.

Others object that this assimilates intention to faith, as when I form the belief that I can leap a great chasm even though I have no evidence of my ability to do so, knowing that the belief itself will guarantee success.

The only alternatives to thinking this would be to say either that on this occasion, prior to supplying a justification, nothing justifies one's belief about Lincoln, though the belief itself is justified nonetheless; or that the belief is not justified, contrary to appearances.

But for a simple belief, like that Ramey sings, we can observe that the structure of the fact matches the subject-predicate form of the that-clause which reports the belief, and may well match the structure of the belief itself.

The belief itself calls for extraordinary arrogance or extraordinary hope in the believer.

It is the moral belief itself that accounts for the desire and hence the motivation without the support of any desire that is already existing.

What distinguishes collective self-deception from solitary self-deception just is its social context, namely, that it occurs within a group that shares both the attitudes bringing about the false belief and the false belief itself.

Scott-Kakures (2000; 2001) argues, however, that since the unwelcome belief itself does not in many cases serve to reduce but rather to increase anxiety or fear, their reduction cannot be the purpose of that belief.

So a single state can serve as the basis for both the belief that p and the belief that I believe that p. Fernández (2013) labels this "the bypass model", to indicate that the self-attribution is based directly on the basis for the first-order belief, "bypassing" the first-order belief itself.

"There's something in the Jewish religion about the importance of belief itself," he continued.