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Beliefful
Beliefful Be*lief"ful, a.
Having belief or faith.
DisbeliefDisbelief Dis*be*lief", n.
The act of disbelieving;; a state of the mind in which one is
fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is
not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of
belief.
Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the
nature of the thing. --Tillotson.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own
littleness that disbelief in great men. --Carlyle.
Syn: Distrust; unbelief; incredulity; doubt; skepticism. --
Disbelief, Unbelief. Unbelief is a mere failure to
admit; disbelief is a positive rejection. One may be an
unbeliever in Christianity from ignorance or want of
inquiry; a unbeliever has the proofs before him, and
incurs the guilt of setting them aside. Unbelief is
usually open to conviction; disbelief is already
convinced as to the falsity of that which it rejects.
Men often tell a story in such a manner that we regard
everything they say with unbelief. Familiarity with the
worst parts of human nature often leads us into a
disbelief in many good qualities which really exist
among men. Make-belief
Make-belief Make"-be*lief`, n.
A feigning to believe; make believe. --J. H. Newman.
Misbelief
Misbelief Mis`be*lief", n.
Erroneous or false belief.
Ultimate beliefUltimate Ul"ti*mate, a. [LL. ultimatus last, extreme, fr. L.
ultimare to come to an end, fr. ultimus the farthest, last,
superl. from the same source as ulterior. See Ulterior, and
cf. Ultimatum.]
1. Farthest; most remote in space or time; extreme; last;
final.
My harbor, and my ultimate repose. --Milton.
Many actions apt to procure fame are not conductive
to this our ultimate happiness. --Addison.
2. Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended
toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last
result; final.
Those ultimate truths and those universal laws of
thought which we can not rationally contradict.
--Coleridge.
3. Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further
division or separation; constituent; elemental; as, an
ultimate constituent of matter.
Ultimate analysis (Chem.), organic analysis. See under
Organic.
Ultimate belief. See under Belief.
Ultimate ratio (Math.), the limiting value of a ratio, or
that toward which a series tends, and which it does not
pass.
Syn: Final; conclusive. See Final.
Meaning of Belief from wikipedia
- A
belief is a
subjective attitude that
something is true or a
state of
affairs is the case. A
subjective attitude is a
mental state of
having some stance...
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Basic beliefs (also
commonly called foundational beliefs or core
beliefs) are,
under the
epistemological view
called foundationalism, the
axioms of a belief...
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heterodox sects also
existed at the same time,
which held
radically different beliefs.
Gnostic Christianity developed a
duotheistic doctrine based on illusion...
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Belief revision (also
called belief change) is the
process of
changing beliefs to take into
account a new
piece of information. The
logical formalization...
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Belief ****verance (also
known as
conceptual conservatism) is
maintenance of a
belief despite new
information that
firmly contradicts it.
Since rationality...
- A
luxury belief is a term used to
describe "ideas or
opinions that
confer status on the
upper class at very
little cost,
while often inflicting costs on...
- Look up
beyond belief in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Beyond Belief may
refer to:
Beyond Belief: A
Buddhist Critique of
Fundamentalist Christianity...
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sociology Belief (band), a Los Angeles-based duo
Belief (Nitzer Ebb album), a 1989
album by
Nitzer Ebb
Belief (
Belief album), a 2022
album by
Belief Belief, a...
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Various theistic positions can
involve belief in a God or "gods". They include: Henotheism,
belief in the
supremacy of one god
without denying the existence...
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Belief bias is the
tendency to
judge the
strength of
arguments based on the
plausibility of
their conclusion rather than how
strongly they
justify that...
