belief
信仰,信念,相信,信奉
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- : something believed; an opinion or conviction: a belief that the earth is flat.
- : confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof: a statement unworthy of belief.
- : confidence; faith; trust: a child's belief in his parents.
- : a religious tenet or tenets; religious creed or faith: the Christian belief.
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Human intelligence is incredibly useful but it doesn’t safeguard you against having false beliefs, because that’s not what intelligence is for.
Full belief, I want to suggest, needn’t be at the core of dehumanization, and an account of dehumanization needn’t commit on how demanding “belief” is or whether baldly contradictory belief is possible.
It also lacks the kind of intentions, goals, beliefs, and desires that drive language use in humans.
As Streumer concedes, if he believed his own view, he would believe that there are such things as good and bad reasons for belief, which is exactly what his view denies.
Hope derives from a belief that life has good things in store.
One wonders if his subsequent battles with the “Evil Empire” were animated by this belief.
The incident sparked his belief in Santa, but he would have to wait nearly two decades before dressing up as Jolly St. Nick.
The congressman traces his belief in Santa Claus back 40 years, when he was a student going to college “on the GI Bill.”
To cyber security experts, the naivety of this statement beggars belief.
His belief that officers really did find his fingerprints at the scene seems to have encouraged his false confession.
He turned his eyes upon her; but no sympathy was in their beams; no in the semblance of her tears.