A proverb is a short,well-known saying that expresses a common truth or belief.

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Okay, it could be a bit of a problem if this text has become the basis for a system of religious faith or belief, and your assumptions about it are that its telling a truth that is singular in nature.

如果这本书成为一些宗教信念系统的基本,那就有问题了,你会臆断，这本书上的都是真确的，都是非凡的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Consider the following: every society which we know operates within the medium of belief or faith of some kind.

考虑下例所提：每一个社会,已知的社会，运作的媒介,多少都含有一些信念或信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But more or less, who really have common belief about certain political issues. So there is that.

但是，他们可能大致上有相同的,政治见地，是有这样的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

With the rise of Christianity, western religion came to be defined to a large degree by the confession of, or the intellectual assent to, certain doctrinal points of belief.

随着基督教的兴起，西方宗教被定义成,很大程度上指被解释为，或被知识分子一致认可为，对特定教义的信仰。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

So we're allowing you to, for example, to hold the belief that it's equally likely that the goalie dives left or dives right.

所以,打个比方,这里也可以包括,门将扑向左右两路概率相同的情况

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

The underlying estimates may not accord with your belief or your intuitive sense of common sense.

各项资产有关估算结果可能与你的预想,或直觉不相符合

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Any belief is heresy if you haven't managed to determine that belief for yourself, if you haven't managed to determine that belief on the basis of your own conscience or through the powers of your own faculty of reason.

任何信念都是异教如果你不能自主决定那个真理,如果你不能决定这个信念,在自己的良心基础上或者是通过自己的推理能力。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

So--you might think " "Oh, no, the physicalist is wrong," when the physicalist says that personality memory, belief, consciousness, what have you is housed or based in the body is based in an immaterial soul.

你也许会想,“不，这个物理主义学者说错了“,当他说,个人的记忆，信仰，意识，等等都储存在肉体里,也储存在非物质的灵魂里。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There is a necessary and inevitable tension between philosophy and belief or to put it another way between philosophy and the civic pieties that hold the city together.

所以紧张关系必然,且无可避免地存在于哲学与信念之间,或换句话说,介于哲学与维系全城的公民虔诚间。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In many moods--at least,when I think about not the simple, the ordinary David Smith case with a single belief or two, but the full bodied--that's a bad term-- the full blown Napoleon case with all the memories,all the beliefs.

至少我想到的不是，这个简单的只拥有一两个信念的案例，而是完全的，不该这么说-,完整的拥有全部记忆和信念的拿破仑。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

There is a kind of license that comes from the denial of any restraints on our desires or a kind of relativistic belief that all desires are equal and all should be permitted.

有种许可来自于,拒绝限制我们的欲望,或一种相对的信念,即所有的欲望都是平等且都应被允许,柏拉图对民主的观点。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Most of us most of the time hold these beliefs as a matter of faith as a matter of belief because we have learned about them from childhood because they were written by Thomas Jefferson or some other reputed high authority.

大部份的人一向将这些信念,奉为信仰，信条,因为我们从小,就是这样受教育,也因为它们是由托马斯？杰斐逊,及其它著名权贵所写。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

but rather, is there any good reason to think that we're all or most of us are in that situation, are in that state of belief where, although we give lip service to the claim that we're going to die, is there any good reason to believe that fundamentally we don't actually believe it?

而是是否有好的理由认为,我们中全部或者大部分都处于，这样一种相信的状态，虽然我们都声称自己会死，是否有好的理由相信,我们其实根本不相信呢？

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选