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Bisimulation and expressivity for conditional belief, degrees of belief, and safe belief [PDF]

open access: yesSynthese, 2016
Plausibility models are Kripke models that agents use to reason about knowledge and belief, both of themselves and of each other. Such models are used to interpret the notions of conditional belief, degrees of belief, and safe belief. The logic of conditional belief contains that modality and also the knowledge modality, and similarly for the logic of ...
Mikkel Birkegaard Andersen   +3 more
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Hippocampus-targeted BDNF gene therapy to rescue cognitive impairments of Alzheimer's disease in multiple mouse models

open access: yesGenes and Diseases
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) can protect neurons from apoptosis and maintain normal synaptic structures, indicating a significant potential for Alzheimer's disease (AD) treatment.
Siqi Tang   +10 more
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Belief Attitude and Belief Updating.

open access: yes, 2023
Despite the importance of risk attitude on decision making, its role on belief updating has been overlooked. In this paper, we aim to answer this fundamental question. We show, using economic theory, that stronger risk aversion drives more conservative actions, decreases the instrumental value of information relative to the importance of belief-based ...
Huang, Evelyn, Leung, Benson Tsz Kin
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Against Belief Normativity

open access: yes, 2013
Normativism about belief is a claim about the nature of belief: Belief is essentially norm- or rule-guided. This is standardly interpreted as requiring that belief formation be subject to genuine prescriptions.
Glüer, Kathrin,   +3 more
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Protestantism among the Hmong People in the Mountainous Region of Contemporary Northern Vietnam

open access: yesReligions
Since the 1980s, there has been a considerable change in the religious life of the Hmong ethnic communities from the mountainous provinces of northern Vietnam—specifically, their conversion to Protestantism.
Nguyen Khac Duc
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Perception, attitudes, knowledge of using complementary and alternative medicine for cancer patients among healthcare professionals: A mixed‐methods systematic review

open access: yesCancer Medicine, 2023
Background With the rapid increase in the prevalence of cancer worldwide, the utilization of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) has increased among cancer patients.
Bo‐Young Youn   +5 more
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Discourse Contestation in Islamic Studies: A Critical Analysis of Stefan Reichmuth's Orientalist Approach and Muslim Intellectual Responses

open access: yesUniversal Journal of History and Culture
Islamic studies conducted by orientalists often face criticism because they are considered to have an epistemological bias that tends to view Islam from an external and secular perspective.
Siti Atieqoh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Post COVID-19, still wear a face mask? Self-perceived facial attractiveness reduces mask-wearing intention

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
With the emerging post-COVID era, wearing face masks has become a domain of personal choice. Then, who wants to continue wearing a mask when it is no longer mandatory?
Seung Eun Cha   +3 more
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Belief Content and Belief State

open access: yesEpistemology & Philosophy of Science, 2015
The paper is dedicated to the analysis of a contribution of the distinction between states and contents of belief to the explanation of changes of belief in some specific situations such as changed stakes or evidence. The plausible idea about beliefs is that an agent may have two different beliefs in the same proposition representing different ...
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Irrational beliefs

open access: yesEurope’s Journal of Psychology, 2019
Irrational beliefs are often used as an umbrella term that comprises a variety of psychological constructs: from specific cognitive biases to a wider class of epistemologically suspect beliefs (superstitions, paranormal and pseudoscientific beliefs, conspiracy theories etc.) or cognitive styles (analytical versus intuitive thinking), but also ...
Žeželj, Iris, Lazarević, Ljiljana
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