Attributions of belief and knowledge to groups or collections of people instead of individuals are common in ordinary use of language, as in the following examples: “the government believes that the number of unemployed will be halved in the near future” or “the scientists know that the Earth...
University lecturer and cultural historian, Alwyn Turner, believes the politics of the 1990s were "ill-tempered and intellectually sparse" with the Labour Party focus being mainly on "spin."According to Turner the 1990s were more about social liberalism and the rise of the 1960s generation, which...
“Confucianism has a different sense of argumentation — it's not even argumentation — a different sense of education of teaching. It's by metaphor,“ says Tucker, who has been active in the field of environment and ecology. “The notion is that you learn from nature about your own cultiv...
Section4.1: As a descriptive and normative matter, the legal factfinder concerns itself with degrees of belief based on the evidence presented. The law already conforms to this conception, allowing it to proceed accurately without puzzles or paradoxes in its factfinding and allowing me to avoid ca...
Uriah Heep clerk of Mr Wickfield’s believes in his humbleness – and is continually boasting of it! Heep’s writhing and scheming, and his cold, clammy nature, makes one’s skin crawl in David Copperfield. Readers see through such hypocritical behaviour and judge a character by his or ...
The difference between these fractions is due to a larger proportion of senders who tell the truth while they expect the receiver to trust as compared to first-movers who choose option X and expect the last-mover to choose option X as well. In contrast, we do not observe significantly ...
A belief system is the set of stories and realities about the world that a person believes to be true. It includes religious beliefs, morals and what one defines as right or wrong. Ideologies refer tothe political, social and economic ideas that help to define a particular group of people....
You can accomplish more if you have someone who believes in you almost more than you believe in yourself. I first saw that insight in the home of Jerry and Esther Hicks, of Abraham fame, decades ago. Jerry (who has passed on and I greatly miss) told me he first heard it in an earl...
Reflection on this should lead to a more adequate statement of what atheism is and indeed as well to what an agnostic or religious response to atheism should be. Instead of saying that an atheist is someone who believes that it is false or probably false that there is a God, a more ...
Then, the model assumes that each player chooses an action that leads to the Pareto superior outcome (in the new game) and believes that the counterpart is doing the same. Empirical support for this assumption comes from Van Lange (1999). The author investigates reciprocity in the context of...