Belief

belief function and the transferable belief model

Beliefs are the result of uncertainty. Sometimes uncertainty is because of a random process and sometimes the result of lack of information. In the past, the only solution in situations of uncertainty has been the probability theory. But the past few decades, various theories of other variables and systems are put forward for the systems with no adequate and accurate information. One of these a...

Belief and Degrees of Belief

Justified Belief as Responsible Belief

In what follows, I will be making recommendations for how to understand and distinguish these three concepts. The account I will be developing situates the concept of epistemically rational belief into a well-integrated and philosophically respectable general theory of rationality; it links the concept of warranted belief with the theory of knowledge; and it insists that the concept of justifie...

From Belief Revision to Belief

Personality, Christian belief and paranormal belief 1 Running head: Personality, Christian belief and paranormal belief Personality, conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief: A study among teenagers

A sample of 10,851 pupils (5,493 males and 5,358 females) attending year-nine classes (13to 14-year-olds) and a sample of 9,494 pupils (4,787 males and 4,707 females) attending yearten classes (14to 15-year-olds) in non-denominational state-maintained secondary schools in England and Wales completed questions concerned with conventional Christian belief and unconventional paranormal belief, alo...