What is belief evidence?

What is belief evidence?

1. Evidence as That Which Justifies Belief. Evidence, whatever else it is, is the kind of thing which can make a difference to what one is justified in believing or (what is often, but not always, taken to be the same thing) what it is reasonable for one to believe.

What is it that makes a belief reasonable?

Reasonable belief means a belief that would be held by an ordinary and prudent man in the same circumstances as the actor. Reasonable belief means a belief based on reasonable cause to believe.

What is reasonable belief test?

A person cannot argue honest and reasonable mistake based on the fact that they did not know what they were doing was illegal. Rather, the belief must relate to the facts of the offence. The accused must also be able to prove that if their belief had been correct, they would not have been committing an offence.

What are some objectively reasonable beliefs?

There are no objectively reasonable beliefs. One person may think a belief is reasonable simply because they are uninformed, not intelligent enough to understand the logic and evidence behind the belief, or biased against the belief.

What is an example of an evidence-based belief?

Then, based on that evidence, it is reasonable to believe any ideas that stem logically from the evidence-based belief. For example, it is reasonable to believe that the Earth spins around the Sun, as this is supported by day/night cycles, the spinning sky at night, and charts of planetary movement.

When can a person believe in a proposition?

We should all agree that a person can only believe reasonably when he has evidence for the propositions believed. Moreover, our evidence for a proposition p which we believe must be stronger than our evidence (if any) against that proposition, if our belief is to be reasonable. Nor is this all. Belief admits of degrees.

Is it morally wrong to believe without evidence?

Clifford’s third and final argument as to why believing without evidence is morally wrong is that, in our capacity as communicators of belief, we have the moral responsibility not to pollute the well of collective knowledge.