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A cognitive bias. It's fairly similar to confirmation bias except an individual actually receives information that discredits or contradicts their beliefs but continues to cling on to their views out of stubbornness.
Elmer doesn't think Donald Trump is divisive even though I showed him a video proving otherwise? Man, he has belief perseverance issues.
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an idea that is generally accepted by many.
Person 1: Hey did you know that pepe originated from reddit?
Person 2: Contrary to popular belief, it actually originated from 4chan
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Muslims believe that the prophet muhammad was told the correct version of The Bible/religion.
Muslims beleive that the prophet muhammad was the last messenger by God, when it clearly says in The Bible that Jesus was the last messenger.
John 14:16
The only other advocate after Jesus Christ will be the spirit of truth.
The Islamic belief is a belief that cannot be substantiated. While today general religion can go back to the original scriptures, Muslims cannot go back to the original souce, as the prophet muhammad is dead.
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From Doonesbury cartoon (Gary Trudeau, 1/28/07): "It's like a think tank, only without the doubt."
George W. Bush listens only to belief tanks.
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Ordinarily used by Yankees as an offensive term for Canadians, especially in reference to sports teams as make beliefs sounds a lot like the Maple Leafs of Toronto (a Canadian ice hockey club) and the Maple Leaf is the national symbol of Canada.
Yankee: The Make Beliefs shouldn't even be a part ofthe NHL. They're not even American.
Canadian: Quit trying to Yank my chain. You Septic Tanks just can't accept your repeated failed attempts at Global dominance.
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A belief in something that is too central to the holder's identity and sense of psychic well-being to relinquish, even in the face of compelling evidence.
Extreme beliefs are a sign of egomania and insanity.
That guy over there has an extreme belief that the Cubs are the best baseball team ever.
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A belief is the acceptance of a proposition. A true belief is one that has been examined by the believer and remains a belief. We often accept propositions, only to discover later that we were wrong. Being wrong can be the result of many things: lack of other knowledge that would have caused disbelief; a persuasive argument that you later reject; the proposition was rational-sounding but it was a fallacy.
A rational proposition that is not a fallacy has justification, that is, it is 'justified'. This means the logic is sound and it has a correspondence to facts of reality. (See 'correspondence truth').
Therefore, a 'justified true belief' is one that has been shown to be logically sound, or is accepted as logically sound.
It may or may not be 'defeasible', in other words, defeatable, by a better argument. The Copernican Revolution was the defeat of Catholic justified true belief, by the arguments of Galileo who used the mathematics of Copernicus. (See 'defeator arguments' or 'defeasors')
President Kennedy had a justified true belief that we could get to the moon, because he was shown the proof, without which his belief could not have been justified.
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