(n.) Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; reliance upon word or testimony; partial or full assurance without positive knowledge or absolute certainty; persuasion; conviction; confidence; as, belief of a witness; the belief of our senses.
(n.) A persuasion of the truths of religion; faith.
(n.) The thing believed; the object of belief.
(n.) A tenet, or the body of tenets, held by the advocates of any class of views; doctrine; creed.
Example Sentences:
(1) You can see where the religious meme sprung from: when the world was an inexplicable and scary place, a belief in the supernatural was both comforting and socially adhesive.
(2) Our parents had no religious beliefs and there will be no funeral."
(3) The sexual attitudes and beliefs of 20 children who have been present at the labor and delivery of sibs and have observed the birth process are compared with 20 children who have not been present at delivery.
(4) Responding to a “We the People” petition, launched after Snowden’s initial leaks were published in the Guardian two years ago, the Obama administration on Tuesday reiterated its belief that he should face criminal charges for his actions.
(5) The spirit is great here, the players work very hard, we kept the belief when we were in third place and now we are here.
(6) The Hindu belief system accommodates this by prescribing use in such a way that this effect becomes beneficial.
(7) Despite tthree resignations and his reputation as a tribal operator in the Blair-Brown wars, however, his belief in the party he joined on his 15th birthday is undimmed.
(8) There can’t be something, someone that could fix this and chooses not to.” Years of agnosticism and an open attitude to religious beliefs thrust under the bus, acknowledging the shame that comes from sitting down with those the world forgot.
(9) It's not egotism, it's something else, a weird unshakeable belief.
(10) He restated his belief that it was in the national interest to remain in the EU, and said he was "confident" he could secure a successful renegotiation of Britain's relationship that could be put to the public.
(11) One view of these results stems from the belief that contraception is a necessary evil and the pill is the closest to a 'natural' sex act.
(12) What emerges strongly is the expressed belief of many that Isis can be persuasive, liberating and empowering.
(13) Following the cognitive orientation theory, we hypothesized that beliefs concerning goals, norms, oneself, and general beliefs would predict the extent of improvement following acupuncture.
(14) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
(15) It is our belief that the reproductive and maternal capabilities of the colony-born females were adversely affected by the practice of removing neonates from their mothers at weaning and raising them with age-mates.
(16) But whether it arose from religious belief, from a noblesse oblige or from a sense of solidarity, duty in Britain has been, to most people, the foundation of rights rather than their consequence.
(17) The definition of midwife is given as midwives trained in a community setting to assist in delivery within the confines of accepted cultural beliefs.
(18) It has arisen from semantic errors, and a belief in ischaemia for which there is no scientific evidence.
(19) Many well-meaning female leadership development programmes share this belief, teaching women to negotiate, network and make decisions “like a man”.
(20) Hillary Clinton said that people who are pro-life have to change our religious beliefs,” said Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal in a statement released by the American Future project , which is backing his undeclared presidential campaign.
Presupposition
Definition:
(n.) The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
(n.) That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.
Example Sentences:
(1) The presuppositions of natural science regarding human nature dividing body and soul, subject and object, are discussed and found insufficient for an understanding of what it means to be human.
(2) Knowledge of the immune response to natural infection with Neisseria gonorrhoeae is presupposition for the development of a gonococcal vaccine.
(3) Taken together, the two studies suggest that behavioral scientists' philosophical presuppositions (e.g., whether reality is better described by stable, isolated elements or changing holistic patterns; and whether persons are passive and reactive or purposive and active) may mirror their views of themselves.
(4) Nothing but regular control of the required laboratory data allows a variable substitution of necessary medications as presupposition for an undisturbed course of pregnancy and development of the fetus.
(5) The presuppositions for nasal long-term intubation are described in details.
(6) (5) The findings are discussed within the framework of the SRP, but the emphasis is placed on the interaction of semantic and pragmatic presuppositions over processing the four construction types.
(7) In this papers, the authors explain the ways gone through by them as researchers and they make considerations about the meaning of this kind of investigation through an explanation of the fundamentals and methodological presuppositions used.
(8) 3) If presuppositions mentioned under 1) and 2) are disregarded, it should be possible to lay down analogic results from the BAK-limits to breathalcohol concentrations, but problems will always appear, if conversions to another time (than the analysis time) or comparisons with BAK-values are to be effected.
(9) Taking the 3-12fold increased maternal mortality rate post section as compared to vaginal delivery into consideration, a vaginal delivery of a breech presentation infant at term appears to be justifiable under certain presuppositions: exclusion of cranio-pelvic disproportion, and normal progression of labour.
(10) Dealing with the question of right hemisphere performance in patients with a brain split by callosotomy demonstrates, better than anything else, that each position taken on this question is underlain by philosophical presuppositions.
(11) It is necessary to consider these calculations and their results as preliminary with regard to the simplifying presuppositions and to the possible inaccuracies of the estimations of input data.
(12) Findings of 185 patients and 271 control subjects are presented for the assessment of work capacity in hypertensive individuals (primary hypertension); an attempt at classification by hypertensive stage is seen as an essential presupposition.
(13) A descriptive term precludes premature presuppositions and encourages the search for causes.
(14) The author concludes that because they are different paradigms (in Kuhn's sense), not only are notional and cognitive elements brought into play, but also presuppositions, attitudes, values and fantasies.
(15) Presupposition for CABGs was myocardial ischaemia at present demonstrated in myocardial viability test.
(16) The qualification of a person to drive a motor vehicle is the presupposition for the required permission.
(17) On the other hand, optimal technique is an indispensable presupposition for optimal efficiency of several immunosuppressive methods.
(18) The present study distinguishes these factors by incorporating contextual information into the subordinate clause of the test sentences in a comprehension experiment (to satisfy presupposions) or into the main clause (to provide comparable prior information without satisfying presuppositions).
(19) This report tries to explain principles and presuppositions of planning sample sizes.
(20) There is a general presupposition that choice primarily helps the more able, academic children.