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belief — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Faith Nouns 1. (assurance of truth) belief, credence, credit, assurance, [good] faith, trust, troth, confidence, presumption; dependence on, reliance on. Informal, store. Slang, stock, gospel. See… … English dictionary for students
belief — n. 1) to express; hold a belief 2) to shake one s belief 3) to give up, relinquish one s belief 4) a basic; doctrinaire; erroneous, false, mistaken; firm, strong, unshakable; popular; prevalent; unpopular belief 5) a belief in (nothing will shake … Combinatory dictionary
belief — /bi li:f/ noun 1 (singular, uncountable) the feeling that something is definitely true or definitely exists: religious belief (+ in): a belief in God (+ that): a growing belief that war had become inevitable | it is sb s belief that: It is my… … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
hold — hold1 holdable, adj. /hohld/, v., held; held or (Archaic) holden; holding; n. v.t. 1. to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child s hand in his. 2. to set aside; reserve or retain: to… … Universalium
hold — I. /hoʊld / (say hohld) verb (held, held or, Archaic, holden, holding) –verb (t) 1. to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp. 2. to reserve; retain; set aside. 3. to bear, sustai …
Belief — is the psychological state in which an individual holds a proposition or premise to be true. [Citation last = Schwitzgebel first = Eric editor last = Zalta editor first = Edward contribution = Belief title = The Stanford Encyclopedia of… … Wikipedia
Hold more stubbornly at least — is a phrase popularized by the late Harvard philosophy professor, W. V. Quine.In W. V. Quine s conception of a person s set of beliefs as a seamless web , there is a lack of propositions which one could, in principle, not give up if there were,… … Wikipedia
Belief — • That state of the mind by which it assents to propositions, not by reason of their intrinsic evidence, but because of authority Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Belief Belief … Catholic encyclopedia
Belief propagation — is a message passing algorithm for performing inference on graphical models, such as Bayesian networks and Markov random fields. It calculates the marginal distribution for each unobserved node, conditional on any observed nodes. Belief… … Wikipedia
hold — hold1 [hōld] vt. held, holding [ME holden < Anglian OE haldan (WS healdan), akin to Ger halten, Goth haldan, to tend sheep < IE base * kel , to drive, incite to action > Gr kelēs, swift horse, L celer, swift: prob. sense development:… … English World dictionary
