basic belief
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbasicandbelief
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basic
adjective
uk/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/us/ˈbeɪ.sɪk/
simple and not complicated, so able to provide the base or starting point from which something ...
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belief
noun[C or S or U]
uk/bɪˈliːf/us/bɪˈliːf/
the feeling of being certain that something exists or ...
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(Definition ofbasicandbelieffrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Why did such abasicbeliefdisappear suddenly?
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On the contrary, he envisages deliberation or rational scrutiny as serving often to shape the operation of rational decision-making without disturbing thebasicbelief-desire regime.
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If you continue to hold on to abasicbeliefwhen its probability on the total evidence is below half, that belief is not privately rational.
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Such a committee structure would be a symptom of abasicbeliefin the "open society".
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Really we are back to the basic arguments, thebasicbeliefin it all.
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Their article offers an informed overview of the philosophical issues relating to qualitative methods, and contextualizes competing paradigms withinbasicbeliefsystems based on ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions.
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It is being forced through against people'sbasicbeliefthat tax should be an assessment of what is fair.
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Hisbasicbeliefwas that it was simply the most successful, efficient, ethical, humane and intelligent way to do business in the long term.
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There is abasicbeliefthat a marriage contract is made forever and that you break it only after a long period of reconciliation.
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Thebasicbeliefof the party opposite that private enterprise is ultimately the most beneficial way of working does not apply in the case of new towns.
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Emotional tension comes from abasicbeliefthat a person is unworthy or powerless to obtain his/her deepest aspirations.
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But in considering union with other faiths with the samebasicbeliefwhich had been separated over the years, who else could act as arbiter and keeper of their conscience?
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At the time of its inception some 40 years ago there was abasicbelief, no doubt sincerely held, in the virtues of central planning and of a benign bureaucracy.
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