belief

  • 31belief — noun 1) it s my belief that age is irrelevant Syn: opinion, view, conviction, judgment, thinking, way of thinking, idea, impression, theory, conclusion, notion See note at opinion 2) b …

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  • 32belief — noun 1) it s my belief that age is irrelevant Syn: opinion, view, conviction, judgement, thinking, idea, theory 2) belief in God Syn: faith, trust, reliance, confidence …

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  • 33belief —    This word (of Germanic origin, meaning what is dear or esteemed ) refers to a mental act or state of mind placing trust or confidence in a person or doctrine. Belief may also be used in a collective sense to indicate the body of doctrines held …

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  • 34belief — The conviction of the mind, founded on evidence that a fact exists, that an act was done, that a statement is true. When one says, I believe that a fact exists, or that an act was done by another, he must be understood to assert that there is… …

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  • 35BELIEF — (Roget s Thesaurus II) Index belief noun confidence (2), devotee, doctrine, myth (2), theory (2) adjective confident, presumptive, reputed …

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  • 36BELIEF —    what is believed, trust, FAITH or intellectual accent. A form of knowledge which may or may not be based on FACTS. In religion belief is often a form of commitment to a way of life and the acceptance of the DOGMA of a religious community …

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  • 37belief in — trust or confidence in. → belief …

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  • 38belief — be•lief [[t]bɪˈlif[/t]] n. 1) something believed; opinion; conviction 2) confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof 3) confidence; faith; trust: children s belief in parents[/ex] 4) rel a… …

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  • 39Belief revision — is the process of changing beliefs to take into account a new piece of information. The logical formalization of belief revision is researched in philosophy, in databases, and in artificial intelligence for the design of rational agents.What… …

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  • 40Belief 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… …

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