It is not enough for Mill that one simply has an unexamined belief that happens to be true; one must understand why the belief in question is the true one.

Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators.

It is all a matter of faulty and unexamined beliefs, Mr. McDermott explains, with the congenial manner of a shrink-turned-pol: A belief that bloodletting worked, a belief that government does not.

She was a result of generations of training in the unexamined and unassailed belief that the law which permitted her to kill a subject when she chose was a perfectly right and righteous one.

So I say, let "Barbershop" cut our unexamined beliefs and destructive practices - whatever needs to be swept away like clippings on the floor.

But as we shift our medical care increasingly to outpatient settings, we can no longer afford such unexamined beliefs.

Fletcher wrote when anthropology as a whole, and she in particular, were just beginning to question the previously unexamined belief in the superiority of white Anglo-Saxon culture.

Your so-smug assumption of your own superiority in all things, from your borrowed technology to your unexamined beliefs and assumed invulnerability.

Green suggests the assumption that it is less of a problem may arise from the unexamined belief that physical events have some sort of primacy over mental ones.

A natural contrarian, Dadashri would not allow himself to be dictated by social norms, cultural biases, or unexamined beliefs.