Sentence examples for theoretical belief from inspiring English sources

But in this case, it seems that the view does depend — at least in part — on a theoretical belief or, at least, a philosophical commitment.

This suggests that in his critical period Kant still held that God's existence is the only available ground for real possibility, but that the explanatory point may justify at most a kind of theoretical belief (Glaube) rather than full demonstrative knowledge (see Chignell 2007).

Does the religion uphold a theoretical belief contrary to that of the common believer?

Hierarchy status was related to a purely theoretical belief of clinical expertise and knowledge held by the health-care worker.

This is why fiction so often represents something better, more just, than an author's theoretical beliefs.

(As it happens, Darwin himself once confessed to the same "horrid doubt" about his theory in a letter: "Would anyone trust in the convictions of a monkey's mind?") In other words, if our belief in Darwinism were true, then none of our theoretical beliefs would be reliable -- including our belief in Darwinism.

All the pragmatists, but most of all Dewey, challenge the sharp dichotomy that other philosophers draw between theoretical beliefs and practical deliberations.

He claims that normal science can succeed in making progress only if there is a strong commitment by the relevant scientific community to their shared theoretical beliefs, values, instruments and techniques, and even metaphysics.

Here, two parallel line segments continue to appear to be different lengths even when one knows them be the same length, suggesting the independence of the process that produces sensory phenomena from one's background theoretical beliefs.

For example, some foundationalists view particular moral judgments as fixed; others might think it is our moral principles or some deeper theoretical beliefs from which such principles might be derived that are fixed and unrevisable.

BET_EF assesses probabilities at all nodes through Bayesian inference, including any possible source of information (theoretical beliefs, models, past data, and volcano monitoring), accounting for both aleatory and epistemic uncertainty.