It's about our beliefs and expectations.

You want to generate beliefs about the world.

They spoke passionately about their beliefs and shared their ideas readily.

For example, beliefs about what it is to be male' and female'.

And how you think about what you're experiencing, your beliefs about the essence of it, affect how it hurts.

As in the case of Mr. El Derini, they were interrogated by SSI agents about their Shia Muslim beliefs and practices.

So what are beliefs?

(g) Young children's experiences of growth and development are powerfully shaped by cultural beliefs about their needs and proper treatment, and about their active role in family and community.

Michael Shermer on strange beliefs

Also, feelings that are clouding the issues the cognitive biases I talked about earlier, fears, folk beliefs, basically an inadequate model of reality.

But step one is accepting the possibility that our current beliefs about obesity, diabetes and insulin resistance could be wrong and therefore must be tested.

And what's really interesting is that this wasn't just about optimizing existing policies, but data transformed some of the beliefs and paradigms underlying German education.

The study's goal is to inform about the knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and application of the acquired knowledge, attitudes, beliefs in the practice related to AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases to the youth and CSFW, but also to gather statistical data about key indicators for monitoring under the Declaration for AIDS activities and monitoring of the accomplishment of the Millennium Development Goals.

Rather, our response is conditioned on our beliefs, about what they really are, what they came from, what they're made of, what their hidden nature is.

But we're going to represent beliefs with probabilities.

And there's another cognitive bias I'll call confirmation bias, where we tend to accept data that confirms our beliefs and reject data that contradicts our beliefs.

Truth and utility, wrote Francis Bacon, the early seventeenth century English philosopher and statesman, are the very same things. In other words, the truth of beliefs about the world is guaranteed only by the capacity of those beliefs to be turned into actions that produce the practical outcomes that human beings desire.

Beliefs could be where are my arms in space?

And the point about Bayesian decision theory is it gives you the mathematics of the optimal way to combine your prior knowledge with your sensory evidence to generate new beliefs.

I don't know I prefer to test their beliefs, scientifically.

His punishment is motivated by his Christian beliefs and activities.

Even about seemingly personal and visceral things like who you're attracted to, you will start aping the beliefs of the people around you without even realizing that that's what you're doing.

I wrote this poem for her. These are not my beliefs.

And then my university education as an ecologist reinforced my beliefs.

We should try to avoid imposing our own beliefs on others.

From the time he got up, his beliefs began to sway.

At a deeper level traditions are eroded with their sacred beliefs.

traditional beliefs have emphasized young children's need for training and socialization.

This scenario is a distinct possibility, although there are reasons to be skeptical. Most importantly, the ultimate sources of the housing boom the beliefs about capitalism and future economic growth seem solidly entrenched.

It means that you think that your beliefs just perfectly reflect reality.

State and Entity constitutions forbid discrimination on the basis of religious beliefs.

So I remained with them, and the more I wrote that story, the more I got into those beliefs, and I think that's important for me to take on the beliefs, because that is where the story is real, and that is where I'm gonna find the answers to how I feel about certain questions that I have in life.

So I have sensory input, which I can take in to make beliefs.

Well, like most fanatical dogma in America, these ideas come from old Puritan beliefs.

And these whatever our wretched beliefs is a religious matter, it's a spiritual matter.

Representatives of the world's religions and beliefs have coexisted peacefully throughout history in Uzbekistan.

Other aspects include the residential neighborhood, if rural or urban one, and personal beliefs.

Japan firmly beliefs that the DPRK nuclear issue should be solved peacefully through dialogue.

So I want to suggest that pleasure is deep and that this isn't true just for higher level pleasures like art, but even the most seemingly simple pleasures are affected by our beliefs about hidden essences.

If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it the intelligentsia unless they are prepared to lie about their beliefs.

Devdutt Pattanaik takes an eye opening look at the myths of India and of the West and shows how these two fundamentally different sets of beliefs about God, death and heaven help us consistently misunderstand one another.

And they have beliefs about what other people want, and what other people don't want, how much power other people have, how much those people could get in the way of whatever it is that you want.

It is possible for individuals, and even for whole cultures, to care about the wrong things, which is to say that it's possible for them to have beliefs and desires that reliably lead to needless human suffering.

Images often push us to question our core beliefs and our responsibilities to each other.

While politics is constantly on the move, beliefs and ethnic origins are inherited and unchanging.