Sentences with phrase «at justifying beliefs»

Human psychology is very adept at justifying beliefs that we already hold, especially when giving up those beliefs would require questioning our self worth and affect us adversely in material ways.

If you require evidence as strong as the extraordinary claims merit, then you will be in the best position to arrive at a justified belief about God.

Not exact matches

Unfortunately, this belief is hard to justify when looking at the fundamentals of the business, particularly, rising costs and lack of profitability when compared to competition.

Even the atheist has to «believe» that there is no god, so at the core, they're just another weird religion trying to prove that their beliefs are more justified and plausible than someone else's.

At least it's a belief that's consistent with the facts and doesn't require an elaborate web of unsupported theories and claims to justify it.

End of Religion You dig way to deep to justify your false beliefs which sould be a clue that your agenda is lacking at some level.

«We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional, and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational explanations.

Do you ever stop to marvel at hoops you jump through to justify your fantasy beliefs?

I'm certain there are those who say I was just delusional and was somehow subconsciously deluding myself or was just trying to justify my beliefs even though at the time I had some very deep fears and concerns believing that it was likely I wouldn't get anything.

At the heart of Klan beliefs is the notion that violence is justified in order to protect white America (Chalmers, 1987).

My reason for holding that belief is not yet another belief but an experience — an experience which from one point of view produces and at the same time considered from another point of view validates and justifies that belief.

Good try at trying to justify your foolish beliefs though.

And for them experiences such as «cat - on - mat sighting» have a double aspect, able at once to engender and (in view of imprinted practical policies) to justify suitable beliefs.

Here's your problem, you are tying all actions into your supernatural beliefs, and so of course you wouldn't think that people who reject your belief would be justified in feeling anything at all.

But I think it will challenge both those who are pro-gay and not... to understand why the desire to be right, or to at least be justified in your beliefs is so damn strong.

If that opportunity never presents itself (and I hope it doesn't) you could always go visit some female burn victims in the Middle East and talk about the violence suffered at the hands of their husbands, all justified by their religious beliefs.

At the same time, the other theologies that have contributed most to explicating and justifying the metaphysical implications of the Christian witness seem to have been typically preoccupied more with theoretical questions of belief and truth than with practical issues of action and justice, and so have contributed only indirectly to clarifying and answering our central question.

Merrick then begins «chipping away at the edges» of Treves's indecently confident morality which can invoke no religious belief to justify the parting of these two souls.

He believed that William James's «momentous error» had been to justify the exercise of religious belief on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals (who in any case were merely justifying religious believing, not the beliefs themselves), and he understood clearly that those who followed in James's track were (like Dewey) eventually going to lose any grip on religion at all.

It might be good fun for some in order to justify their own beliefs, but it detracts from meaningful discussion at least and leads to genocide eventually at worst.

The interpretation given of Jesus as the Logos in the Prologue is confessedly interpretation, and interpretation influenced by the intellectual thought of Hellenistic Judaism, but at the same time one justified by the belief of the Church in Jesus» Sonship.

Instead of rebuking power I often dress it up in religious propositions, to justify myself, my beliefs, etc... But this is just more grasping at power and prevents Spirit from flowing in me, and through me.

Considering that since the bible came out, it has been the cause or the belief in it has been used to justify murder, wars, the faster spread of disease, attempted genocide, then add in the fact that there are 40,000 vrsions of belief in the «word» (definitely a symptom of chaos), and considering how many things in the bible are just flat out wrong, it is far more likely that it is the tool of satan... just look at the body count.

In the pre-modern ages human consciousness was dominated by a feeling of helplessness in the face of all natural and supernatural forces, causing people to acknowledge their absolute dependence on divine help, whereas the modem age has been marked by a high degree of human self - confidence and the belief that humans can at last master the forces of nature, justifying an optimistic hope for the human earthly future.

To justify these beliefs the NIRA has sponsored various psychostatistical surveys aimed at isolating the cosmic truths (cosmic enough, that is, to satisfy stockholders) of industrial recreation.

Indeed we propose a simple model of the price dynamics in which the return growth depends on three components: a) a momentum component, naturally justified in terms of agents» belief that expected returns are higher in bullish markets than in bearish ones; b) a fundamental component proportional to the log earnings over price ratio at time zero.

If you're raising an eyebrow at that, you're probably reasonable to do so; but my long - held belief is that indexes (the implicit comparison most people will have made to my target figure) are grounding and self - justifying benchmarks.

Then you proceed to use the results of your experiment to justify changing policies for the entire world at a cost of many trillions of dollars, with the unerring belief that your experimental data is completely reliable.

Of course, investigation can often times only lead to more doubt and at some point one has to fall back on what can reasonably be called justified belief.

I suggest you look at the comments about the asumption that the MWP is cooler than today which justifies their modelled belief that in 90 years levels will be higher, then look at the authors - Mann and Jones.

If correlation is an indicator of potential causation, then one would need to look at an entirely different reason other than CO2 emissions for any attempt to justify a belief in the runaway global warming scenario.

In order to successfully claim indirect discrimination, the claimant must demonstrate that the respondent has applied a provision, criterion or practice («PCP»); that PCP puts or would put someone with the claimant's religion or belief at a particular disadvantage when compared to other persons; the PCP puts or would put the claimant at that disadvantage and the PCP can not be justified as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim.

In other words, cynics are only at an economic disadvantage in contexts where their beliefs aren't justified.