It also relied on basic psychology, "the instinctive belief that everyone dies at an average age - except me."

It is based on an instinctive belief in one's own infallibility and safety.

When he did so, he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red.

Given that our only proof for free will is this instinctive belief; Kwatz concludes that we must be mistaken.

Liberal judges do not have the instinctive democratic belief that citizens in open societies should be free to argue without restraint.

Yet another crenellation had been removed from Sauniere's library tower, reinforcing my instinctive belief that it was an integral part of the story.

That kind of instinctive belief was often justified, or so Miss Marple believed.

I am aware that the assumed instinctive belief in God has been used by many persons as an argument for His existence.

Well, the doctrine of transmigration satisfies, to some degree, both of those instinctive beliefs.

To the senses and the unrenewed understanding, belongs a sort of instinctive belief in the absolute existence of nature.